Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Yes. Will the Minister ensure the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation will come to the Dáil this afternoon to make a statement and answer questions on the disastrous loss of jobs proposed at Ulster Bank? I ask him to forget the corrosive fatalism and institutionalised pessimism which states nothing can be done. If the banks were lending to small enterprises and individuals as they should be in order to recreate the domestic economy, none of these jobs would be lost. That is the road we should be going down.

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