Trevor Sargent
Ceist:48 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the take-up to date in 1998 among individual credit unions of the enabling functions contained in section 44 of the Credit Union Act, 1997; her Department's estimate of the overall value to the development of the prescribed social, cultural, charitable or community development purposes at local and community level if all of the credit unions affiliated to the Irish League of Credit Unions were to adopt this section of the Act and apply it within their own common bonds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15600/98]