Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed)

11:20 am

Mr. Gerald McConville:

We see it as a win-win situation for everybody. All we are doing is maybe taking a different approach to it. As I said earlier, 40% of our loans are for under €1,000. Already a large proportion of our loans are for very small amounts. The difficulty is that the value of those loans is only 9% of our lending. Given the administrative and regulatory costs, from a practical point of view, we see it that this will save on administrative costs. Very tight controls are still in place. Credit unions are already doing top-up loans - it is a feature of credit union lending. Since they are doing top-up loans, they have to issue credit agreements, the documents which go with that and the pre-contract information each time. It amounts to about 12 pages of documentation.

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