Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

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

Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland

Ms Jane Howard:

What we are doing is that we are freezing the accounts where we believe there is no reliance on their accounts as their main bank. However, if the customer contacts to us to say that there is reliance, we can unfreeze that account. We can understand what help they need, because we have looked at the accounts and the activity is coming down on all those accounts, to see what more help they need. We are doing it in that way as an extra step and not going straight to closure.