THE European Investment Bank provided €1 billion in financial support to the economy in 2009 more than double the 2008 figure that it contributed to infrastructure and SME projects in 2008.

The Chairman and CEO of the Financial Regulatory Authority will have a chance later today to respond to allegations that the Regulator knew about overcharging at AIB in 2001.

FINE GAEL will tonight force Government TDs to publicly back Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s policy of not confirming the identities of Anglo Irish Bank’s Golden Circle.

THE Financial Regulatory Authority has been given an extra week to prepare its explanation to the Oireachtas Committee on Economic and Regulatory Affairs.

The Governor and senior managers at the Central Bank should be called before the national parliament to explain its “systematic failure” surrounding the establishment of an illegal bank in Dublin, Labour said today.