CASH HIM IF YOU CAN

SF try to pin down minister over AIB cashless bank plan

- PAT FLANAGAN

SINN Fein is demanding to know what the Minister for Finance knew of AIB’s plan to make 70 of its mainly rural branches cashless.

The party’s public expenditure spokeswoman Mairead Farrell (below) has again called for the Oireachtas Finance Committee to meet after it was revealed the Department of Finance knew of AIB’s plans in advance of the move.

After public outrage, the country’s biggest bank made an embarrassing U-turn and reversed the decision but it has also emerged the Department was briefed weeks in advance of the plan.