Joe Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

The Minister has answered the last part of my question which related to the number of troops involved on an annual basis in escorting cash consignments. Does he consider it acceptable that financial institutions which make annual profits of billions of euro each year — last year AIB made profits of €1.4 billion — should effectively ask taxpayers to subsidise the provision of escorts for them? Does the Minister believe that the financial institutions should pay for the escorts?

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