{"id":1201,"date":"2013-10-29T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:56:21","slug":"bank-pull-out-dragging-back-economy-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/bank-pull-out-dragging-back-economy-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Pull Out Dragging Back Economy &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dublin South West representative, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said the decision by ACC Bank to\u00a0pull out\u00a0from its every day banking services and to return its banking license highlights a undeniable fact that elements of the banking sector are still dragging back and hindering the Irish economy. Crowe said that\u00a0the closure of the Agriculture Credit Corporation as a day to day service provider\u00a0 also represents another reduction of the banking sector and a reduction of choice for Irish consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn 2014, the people of Ireland will see another banking option disappear. It also means that another 180 jobs in the financial sector will be made redundant. This latest round of redundancies comes on top of huge reductions in numbers at Ulster Bank and Allied Irish Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSix years into the financial crisis and with over \u20ac65 billion pumped into them, the Irish banking sector remains a significant weight dragging down the potential for economic growth and this government has\u00a0yet to come up with a productive plan for the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe closure of the Agriculture Credit Corporation as a day to day service provider represents another reduction of the banking sector and a reduction of choice for Irish consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThousands of jobs have been lost in the financial sector in the last few years without any sort of adequate government response. The closure of ACC branches across the state is another visible sign like the many\u00a0empty shop fronts, of a shrinking sector of the economy and unfortunately this government has no inkling of a plan to fix it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ENDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West representative, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said the decision by ACC Bank to\u00a0pull out\u00a0from its every day banking services and to return its banking license highlights a undeniable fact that elements of the banking sector are still dragging back and hindering the Irish economy. Crowe said that\u00a0the closure of the Agriculture Credit Corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}