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:

I will turn to Mr. Casey in a second. I guess this is connected with Deputy Pearse Doherty's question as well on whether there is a gap, or the perception of a gap at least, between where the credit unions are operating and where the banks are. There is also the question of whether the credit unions, to some extent, can close up that gap and serve needs like that at a micro level sufficiently well on an individual basis - I say that because they are individual entities - or is there a need to bring them together? Alternatively, is there some way to create something entirely new? That is, ultimately, the question being posed.