Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I appreciate that. I will come to that provision of the Bill at a later stage around the fees of ATMs.
The point I wish to make is that in the North and Britain, 95% of the population live within one mile of an ATM in an urban area and within three miles in a rural area. Do we have any similar data here? There is a big difference between 10 km and one mile, as the witnesses will appreciate. I am trying to get an understanding on the actual levels. The criterion being used in this legislation is 10 km. Take Dundalk and Newry, for example. In Newry, a person is one mile from an ATM machine. If a person is in rural Armagh, he or she is within three miles of an ATM as 95% of the population are within three miles of an ATM. Will it be that just down the road in Louth a person can be 10 km from a rural machine? Do we have similar data on an all-island basis?
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