Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, the bank has instigated the process. It involves the sheriff and the personnel whom he has hired, rather than people the bank has hired. Mr. Mahon has noted that once the sheriff hands the property back to the ban, it has to hire security to mind it, but in the process of eviction, they are not people the bank has hired, rather they have been hired by the sheriff.