Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME

3:10 pm

Mr. Mark Fielding:

The last comparison was done by the IBF in 2004, but I would call it a false comparison because to show a better comparison it omitted from Europe the Netherlands, France and Italy, mainly because their charges were cheaper than Irish charges at the time. There has not been any comparison recently. As I said, it is something we will consider and will probably do through our umbrella group.