Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Okay, and on that point - and this is my last point because I'm out of time, Mr. Gray - more fundamentally still, is it appropriate that in a democratic society private financial institutions, which hold enormous power over society, are able to profiteer and speculate at will, and blow up such a massive bubble that then creates, when it crashes, such havoc? Would you not say that that's a more fundamental reason that they have that right or not and the greed for super profits?