Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB

4:00 pm

Mr. Bernard Byrne:

I do not believe the fees are materially different than they were three or four years ago. From a European point of view, these fees are very competitive as confirmed by studies by the Department of Finance and are appreciably below the European average.