Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

My questions are on promised legislation notwithstanding the limited number of Ministers who attend the Order of Business. What is the position in regard to legislation, No. 11 on the list, to give effect to the Government decision to increase to €100,000, with effect from 20 September, the protection for depositors with banks and building societies and to extend it to credit unions? Have the heads of the Bill been agreed? When will it be published?

I refer to another Bill which might encourage participation from all Government parties. The purpose of this Bill, No. 66 on the list, is to transfer ministerial responsibility for building societies from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Minister for Finance, who will be anxious to know about it, and to provide for various other urgent miscellaneous amendments to financial services law. Have the heads of that Bill been agreed? Is it deemed urgent?

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