Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know I have gone on a little. What has happened to promote the Private Members' motion signed up to by 158 people in the Dáil on the Kiwi banking system?

I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I want the Minister to come in. I would like to ask him to explain these questions. I heard the Minister speaking in the Dáil last evening to Deputy Harty. He did not explain the answers to any of these questions. This is serious because it is about privatisation. It is about the big boys staying as the big boys and the bigger boys, who have failed this country banking-wise, being put in as kind of mentors for our already brilliant post offices. No new system is being allowed in the door. We keep on pushing it onto a shelf. We do not deal with it even as a pilot programme in three or four banks. Why can the Kiwi community system of banking not be put in as a pilot programme? I would like the Minister to answer some of those questions so I am proposing an amendment to the Order of Business.