Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Bank of Ireland is a private institution and it makes its own decisions. The Government has decided to focus its work through An Post and through other initiatives such as the remote working hubs and enterprise centres, plus the Housing for All and Town Centre First strategies. We are using our mechanisms on a number of fronts to revitalise towns and to get investment back into towns. When we have met the banks, we have repeatedly stressed the need for them to retain and maintain their regional and rural footprints as well as the importance of that to the commercial viability of towns. Where the Government itself has control of the levers, it is anxious to put investment into towns such as Ballyhaunis.

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