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
2:00 pm
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. Trethowan speaks about the market for SME and farm loans being highly concentrated and the relative lack of competition and says it is not conducive to raising what he defines as the low-risk appetite of banks which is required to support the needs of the real economy in the recovery. Will he expand on that?