Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Where are the proposals for a Sparkassen type banking system? When will a pilot of local banking for rural Ireland be introduced in counties Longford, Westmeath, Offaly and Laois based on the German Sparkassen model? I am disappointed that almost no progress has been made on this project and that it was not specifically included in the rural action plan, apart from a nod towards examining the issue again.

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