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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: According to a different section of the report that was given to me, the share of SMEs in Ireland reporting they did not apply for bank loans because of sufficient internal funding was 50.4%, which is about the same as in the rest of Europe. That means that more than 48% do not have sufficient internal funding and have other reasons. I find it difficult to believe that cost is a reason in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: I want clarity on this. In the main, the overdraft rate is approximately 8% but is Mr. Lauhoff stating no overdraft rates of 15% are being charged?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: Regardless of credit history.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: If it does not apply to business, where does it apply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: We did not afford Ms Moroney the opportunity to answer the questions I put to her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: I have no doubt but that the able Ms Brennan will have them all written down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: What is it for persons?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: There are no rates of 15%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: The last question I asked, and the most intriguing from my point of view, is how the post office arrangement works.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: Cheques?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: I accept it is commercially sensitive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: I asked whether one can borrow through the post office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: The post offices in their own right can accept cheques, can they not? Do they not change cheques for pensioners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: After that introduction, I must welcome the witnesses warmly. I attended the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach to hear from Sparkassen. I also had the honour of addressing the Irish League of Credit Unions at their AGM a few years ago when I was a Minister. I am a great fan of both, and I will lay that on the table at the very outset. I will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: Do they deal in cash and coin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: Will the Chairman allow the other witnesses also to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: Can the witnesses answer Deputy Neville's question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: It was the question Mr. Felzen took first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: That is just the population of Fingal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)
James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and the committee for inviting Sparkassen and the credit unions in and giving a strong message that this is not an either-or situation. We need our pillar banks, but their focus has very much moved away from face-to-face contact with the customer but the credit unions and Sparkassen have shown that their model of banking harks back more to the day of the face-to-face...