Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I will take up the Ceann Comhairle's offer to ask the Minister for Finance later today about a small company who sought to raise €30,000 from the Bank of Ireland for four weeks in order to undertake two blue chip contracts and was refused. The money to which Deputy Costello referred is, among other moneys, supposed to be available for lending to business. However, I will observe the Ceann Comhairle's strictures on this matter.

See this speech in context