Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Credit Institutions Act 2008 is an Act of the Oireachtas was a piece of emergency legislation decided on by the Government on Tuesday Sept 30 and enacted on Thurs Oct 2nd to provide a eur 440 billion guarantee to six Irish banks to prevent possible collapse as a result of the Global financial crisis of September October 2008. It was unusual in that it was the first time since its foundation that the Irish senate began debate on legislation after midnight, finally passing the bill at 8am on Thurs October 2. BACKGROUND The decision to introduce the bill was made following Monday 29 September, when the ISEQ fell a record 13%, when a number of banks in Europe were collapsing and the United States congress initially rejected their Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and a subsequent record points-value fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.