Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Credit Review Office Report: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. John Trethowan:

SBCI would have to answer that question because I do not have the names. SBCI approves people who have to go through a vetting process. It will not be solely the two main banks that will be the channel for SBCI money. It will largely go through them but there will be other alternatives as well.

I will speak about how some of that money can help. If one has a deal which requires a credit guarantee scheme, it has an insurance premium which the borrower has to pay. It is typically around 2% of the loan value, so there is a cost to the borrower to have his or her loan guaranteed by the Government but if one can get it with SBCI funding then it takes that cost back out again for the borrower. We will be using all of those tools to try to help borrowers get across the line.

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