Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Access to Finance for SMEs (Resumed): Credit Review Office and Chambers Ireland

2:20 pm

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I thank Mr. Trethowan for coming today for a very useful discussion. We are considering the area of access to finance, including different methods of access to finance. We are examining dependence on traditional banking, as well as other methods. We hope to make a report on this in June or July, and we may feed back to the office in the meantime. I know we did not get the office's figures but we may come back to it if there is a need to correct the banks' figures. We will chat to Mr. Trethowan in future and the office should keep up its good work.