Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

To assist small businesses, or any business, we have to get banking back to its core function of providing credit to the real economy. That required recapitalisation of the banks and the provision of credit. The credit review arrangements we have put in place under Mr. Trethowen allow appeals by viable but vulnerable businesses against bank decisions which they feel are unjustified.

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