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:

It is an important point to make. There is a high level of engagement, including information seminars, CEO forums, sessions with boards, quarterly meetings with the representative bodies, town hall meetings, road shows that the teams go on and so forth. The bank meets hundreds of credit union staff and we publish information and guidelines for them. As Mr. Casey has described, we have a dedicated team to support credit unions in the context of business model development. They get a huge level of support from the Central Bank because we believe they have an important role to play, in terms of their responsibilities. We also take our mandate, in terms of the well-being of the sector, extremely seriously.