Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion
Mr. Tim Molan:
It is an important and practical thing. There is a legitimate space for a credit union with €10 million, €15 million or €20 million in a particularly localised community. I know that there is relativity to asset size and other factors, but there should not be a situation where someone walks into a credit union which has only €15 million in assets and asks for a substantial amount. We might know that a credit union 20 miles away can do it. The market in Canada and the USA has a secondary market, where the €15 million credit union can actually take the application, process it and hand on the actionable part of it to credit union X further along the way.
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