Banking Sector Dail Éireann — 2023-05-09 ============================================================ Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire Is there a single shred of evidence that privately run for-profit banks have worked in our lifetime? We had to bail them out after the madness of the Celtic tiger that they helped to instigate. They are now ripping off people with mortgage interest hikes, profiteering----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-05-09/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:51+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-05-09