Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The economic management council will meet the banks. We plan in any event on meeting them in the near future.

I welcome the Credit Review Office report. Since the office's establishment in April 2010, 197 appeals have been received, 60% of which have been completed, and 69 of these refusals have been overturned, resulting in the banks subsequently supplying €6.9 million of credit and supporting 683 jobs in the SME sector.

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