Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

When the banks were making millions of euro the reality was that people did not have to face prohibitive charges such as those being proposed. Rather than the back stairs in the Department of Finance,so often referred to by Senator Barrett, exclusively for the use of the senior bankers and that shareholder bottom line, it is time the House united in demanding that the Minister summon the banks and the regulator and tells them they are instruments of their state. We must use our shareholder status to ensure the people are not kicked when they are down in the way the banks have continually done, despite the great support given by the people and the Houses.