Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is about banks that want to come into Ireland. There appears to be some resistance from the banking sector here to banks based outside Ireland coming in here. If that story is true, and I am extremely concerned about it, the Minister for Finance should come into the House to clarify that there is not resistance to those jobs being created here. There would be a huge spin-off from the point of view of the economy and it is something we need to develop. I did a calculation on the number of jobs created since 2012 and in the past four years, 199,000 new jobs were created. We should keep that going, and the banking sector can play a part in doing that. We should have the Minister in the House to give full clarification on the issue.