Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

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

Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Ed Sibley:

There is a lot of similarity. Senator Kieran O'Donnell has mentioned the similarity between the Sparkassen model and the credit unions in how they are set up to serve the local area. That has proved reasonably successful but it is not without its challenges. If the committee spoke to the regulator there it would discover that were problems some of the time.