Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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When we started looking into this first, I believe there were 8,700 cases, then 15,000, now it is 20,000 cases. If we take Mr. Kissane's comments and translate them into a set of guidelines, it will go way beyond 20,000 cases. I agree fully with the case being made by Mr. Kissane. What would he suggest the committee should do to try to highlight the cases, to get to the numbers we need to understand the extent of the problem and then to get the banks to deal with each individual customer?