Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

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

General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB

Mr. Eamonn Crowley:

I will comment on that. We announced in recent months that we are investing another €50 million in our digital capability. That is centred around upgrading our app and providing more opportunities for customers to self-serve by undertaking more day-to-day or routine transactions. That is something we will be bringing to the market next year so we will be at market standard in that respect. With regard to services like Revolut or N26, there have been discussions at BPFI level around creating a payment platform that would provide functionality like that of Revolut, for example. That is something on which we are working at an industry level. We recently engaged with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on how we can bring that to life by providing that additional service and competition.