Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
2:00 pm
Mr. Nick Ashmore:
One thing we have found about farmers is that they are the most switched-on borrowers in the State. They are incredibly aware. When we first launched the lending programme back in 2015, we really did not have time to reach out to farmers and within months they were already drawing down almost a quarter of the funding.