Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Overview of Banking Sector: Ulster Bank

10:55 am

Mr. Jim Brown:

We do not know; it will depend on customer behaviour. I have mentioned that when we put our strategy in place two or three years ago, we had 238 branches in our network across the island and expected the number to reduce to 170 or 175. I still think that will be the case. The changes are driven by the changes in customer behaviour.