Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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But Ms O'Dea what puzzles me is this: I mean, this was the subject of massive publicity, conversation and controversy, just the simple price of a home for an ordinary person, we are not talking about people buying to let or landlords or speculators or whatsoever. And the fact that the regulatory system didn't go into a mode of alarm and opposition to this and try and stop it, why did that happen when it was so obvious how the ... this generation was just being screwed to the wall by what was going on by banks and developers?