Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Business of Joint Committee
Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Ulster Bank
1:30 pm
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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There is, however, a situation whereby people do not have broadband in rural areas and many elderly people want a relationship with their bank. If Ulster Bank is reducing the number of staff in branches and has already closed some, that creates a real problem of social exclusion and exclusion for people in rural areas. That is the impact.