Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

AIB is running an advertisement saying it will give a loan within 48 hours. The circle starts with the liquidation. The current business is not in liquidation but AIB did not respond within 48 hours. After ten days, he rang the bank and was told it means 48 hours after it leaves the desk of the person it was sent to. It can sit on that desk for three weeks. There is some tidying up that needs to be done. I have to work on the Statute of Limitations and the planning issue of 1981 because he has come up against this problem of development levies not being paid in 1981 and the onus is falling on a new business starting up to pay all the development levies. That is wrong. We have to tweak that legislation. It is the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. I heard about this only today but this man knows of others similarly affected.

I will finish on a good note. This is not the Minister’s fault or that of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation but the Minister's job is being made more difficult by planning, the Revenue Commissioners and the banks. If they all worked better with the Minister we would be doing much better. The Minister should keep up the pressure and the good work.