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. Ken Burke:

We have been working hard to bring the cheapest possible credit to our customers. We are the only bank with a third round of funding. We have another €200 million in AIB funding, bringing the total to €450 million. The last tranche of €200 million is ring-fenced in the sub €300,000 lending space. We are focusing on those small and micro SMEs. That funding comes at a discount of 1.25% to our standard variable business loan rate.