Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They were only the messengers. One can equally understand the frustration of people who were getting letters and facing this behaviour. I am trying to get an understanding of Mr. Broderick's membership, where they are coming from and the kind of work they do.

People can now do a degree of mobile banking that they could not do two, three or four years ago. Most of us now only go into a branch when we really have to in order to get a cheque or lodge foreign currency which happens a lot less now with the euro and credit cards. Some 160 branches have been closed. How many branches are there across the entire network of main banks now?