The term of the loan guarantee to the bank RBS expires on 1 April this year.

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To offset any default, 5 percent of the loan is deposited at a bank as a guarantee, and a solidarity group of five to eight households is formed to share responsibility for the member's loan repayments.

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Critics worry that the Bank will lose its leverage to enforce corporate and social reform, because a guarantee loses it the option of stopping loan disbursement.

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All of the other ELA debt was contracted under the Facility Deed which according to the Anglo Irish Bank Annual Report 2010 is an unsecured loan facility guaranteed by the Minister for Finance who separately benefits from a counter indemnity from the Bank should the guarantee be called upon.

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