Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

They are not going to restore trust in me, although I do not know about the young people. They are a joke. They brought us into the red even though they are now back in the black. There is no one there. I was in a bank yesterday but I had to talk to machines. If they are going to restore my faith in machines, it is not going to happen.

I very much believe the people have to stand up against the banks once and for all. People should take all their money out of the bank, bar their salary, and put it in the post office, a plastic bag or maybe in a biscuit tin, because it is likely to be there when they go looking for it in several years. They beggared us and we are paying for the beggaring. We are choked every day by their inadequacies and profits. Someone needs to start taking this seriously and stand up to them. Also, we might question how much they paid for their awful building down on the docks. To me, the idea of the banks having a cultural committee to change the sense of their own profiteering energy is simply the joke of jokes.