Pearse Doherty (Sinn Fein)

We appreciate the move by the Government today and remind ourselves that it is a bail-out by taxpayers for the banks. When will the Government come forward with a plan to provide security for those ordinary people in debt to the banks, those who have lost their jobs, are mortgaged to the hilt and are facing courts in regard to repossession of their homes? When will the Government provide a plan to bail them out? Is it the Government's intention to work through the night to insure against their losses because these are the people who have most to lose? Is that issue on the Government's agenda?