Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael)
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Dr. Byrne also stated "that a culture of deference" between Government elected representatives and State authorities with banks and the property sector was well established by the 1990s. This culture of deference "operated where political parties and individual politicians were especially financially vulnerable". Can that statement not be made about every country in the world that has an open democracy?