Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014

10:00 am

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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It is particularly aggressive in some cases. I appreciate that it is a difficult part of the market and banks have to try to get their money back but where they are not giving breathing space to SMEs when legitimate attempts are being made to sort out their financial difficulties, that is causing serious problems for them because they cannot get over this aggressive approach and they cannot reach a reasonable position. Surely there must be some way of ensuring that does not happen because they will progress anyway. There has to be an approach to this by the State and that section within the Department.