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

Mr. John Trethowan:

All I can say is the amount of refinancing that will have to happen will be whatever the size of the Danske Bank SME and farm balance sheet was. I am not aware of the exact amount of that but it could be found among Central Bank statistics. I must add the caveat that I only see cases that come to us that have not been addressed by the banks. There could be people who are going to the pillar banks or to Ulster Bank to be refinanced and because their business condition is okay they are having no problems with getting refinanced. I only see the cases that have a challenge that come through to us and, of course, I do not see them all.

Deputy Tóibín had a third question.