Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

I want to come back to the Deputy's point about the conflict in our mandate because I am not sure if he was in the room earlier when I commented on this. I want to make something clear. I do not see a conflict between financial stability and consumer protection. The reason we look to ensure financial stability is to protect consumers. I apologise to the rest of the members who heard what I said earlier but I was told last week that all the Central Bank was interested in was protecting bank profits.