Deputy Mattie McGrath, is this a question on promised legislation?

Yes. The programme for Government is supposed to support farm families and businesses. As Deputy Pearse Doherty did with the Tánaiste, I raise the issue of the banks, especially AIB. I have been in contact with a family, Tim and Nora. They have written to the Tánaiste, but ten years later they are going around in circles with the bank. They were overcharged by €90,000 and are being treated like pariahs. They cannot get answers from AIB. They are just sent further around the merry-go-round. It is State terrorism-----

A question, please.

-----what is being done by the banks to these people, including many families. They got no response from the Tánaiste when they wrote to him.

A question, please.

When will the Government take proactive action with these pillar banks that the people bailed out? They are running amok and literally destroying people's lives, which are ending up in suicide, ill health, family separation-----

We have the question.

-----and businesses destroyed.

The question concerns proactive action in respect of the banks.

We cannot discuss individual cases here, obviously-----

No, but the Tánaiste knows about the case.

-----but if they are a symptom of a broader problem-----

There are thousands of similar cases.

-----then of course the Government needs to deal with them. This is why we need a strong Central Bank and a strong regulator, and that is what the Government needs to focus on delivering.