Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

——fuelled by a Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government. This statement from AIB raises serious problems with the state of our economy. As I said yesterday, it is death by a thousand cutbacks. Where is the big plan? Where is the support to hard-pressed mortgage holders and small businesses? It is time we had the Minister for Finance in the House to tell us the plans. In view of this statement from AIB, which causes much concern, it is time for the Minister to come to the House.