Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

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

Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kevin Johnson:

We must be conscious that the credit union sector is not homogenous. There is diversity and variety within the credit union movement, and the gap arises when a one-size-fits-all approach is taken. The problem is that there will not be an average, so everybody is probably suffering. These matters of proportionality and regulations that match the nature, scale and complexity of the individual credit union are set out in the legislation. What we have are 285 active credit unions, each of which is a separate legal entity that deserves to be regulated as such, not as one homogenous group. This is possibly-----