Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister provide an update on the status of the proposal to allow credit unions to offer residential and commercial mortgages to their members? Specifically, he might comment on the status of some of the 27 recommendations in the report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on the credit union sector. When the report was laid before the House, I understood the Government to be generally positive about allowing the sector the opportunity to become a co-operative movement that was fit for purpose in terms of mortgage and residential loans.

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