Search for "we are where we are" speaker:Derek Nolan (KildareStreet.com)

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011): Derek Nolan: ...which will be very difficult if just months or years previously they have burned many investors. It will simply not work that way - that is not how business or banking works. I hate the expression "we are where we are". We need to use different expressions such as "we are where we are for a reason". The reason is that the State, back in September 2008, approved a banking guarantee which...
Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011): Derek Nolan: ...it to be a market that cannot sustain such competition. The fact there are 300 million people in the US as against our 3 million suggests we should ask questions about changing. Unfortunately, we are where we are and the European directive has been made and agreed by the Government at European level. Therefore we must implement it. We must ensure now that it is implemented as carefully...

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