Ms Francesca McDonagh:

I am very pleased the Senator has been able to join us at one of the enterprise towns. I understand other members of the committee have also attended. We held over 130 enterprise town events in 2017. Typically, it is a local community based two-day event where we bring together the local business community with sporting, social and charitable organisations. It is about the bank's role in supporting local towns, economies, businesses and people. It is an example of Bank of Ireland at its best. We receive consistently positive feedback from our people. We should be very ambitious about what more we can do with enterprise towns to help build the trust and relationships we have across the country.