Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of assistance given to banks and building societies in the current crisis in the past few years to include investments made to each institution, cash transfer, current, to each institution or promised to each institution and the phases of the promised transfers; in respect of payments to date, the source of the funds, for example, the National Pensions Reserve Fund, current Government expenditure and borrowings and if he will outline his efforts to inform the public that their taxes are not going to bail out the banks as is the current perception. [35600/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The various banking interventions by the Government since the introduction of the State guarantee for the domestic banking system in 2008 have served to protect the banking system and to avoid even greater financial and indeed other costs, for the public which would otherwise have occurred. A failure to meet the bank capital requirements could have resulted in bank failures and an even greater cost to the taxpayer. I have outlined the cost of assistance to each of the institutions in the table attached.