Ireland

The Department of Finance is to carry out a survey on small business lending in an effort to determine the real demand for credit from the sector, the Irish Independent reports.

A Government group set up to increase the flow of credit to SMEs in Ireland has responded to recent criticism from an SME organisation.

Ireland s two biggest banks are unlikely to meet their lending targets to SMEs for 2011, according to recent figures.

The Republic of Ireland s Small Firms Association (SFA) wants the Department of Finance to commission a survey of companies lending needs to counter-act the banking sector s understatement of the demand for credit, the Irish Examiner reports.

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SME bank credits refusals hit 48 per cent in the last three months

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