Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We spent three or four days intensively investigating the Sparkasse model in Germany. It does not make sense to set up such a system. We already have a viable network. By doing that, it would give a framework that would enable all those other areas to come in. Why has the increase in lending been so low and why is the loan-to-asset ratio by credit unions on the low side? What is the cause of that?