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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 10, 2012

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION:  Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to review the requirement that community groups receiving council grants have to hold a bank account so that groups with a credit union account, who wish to support their local credit union, can receive payment for lodgement in their credit union account?

REPLY:

The Council’s Finance Department has advised that we cannot make EFT Payments into a Credit Union Account as it would only go into the Credit Union Central Account and most Credit Unions would not be able to identify the payment or to whom it would relate to. It is a requirement for all Suppliers being set up on our Financial System that they hold a current Bank Account Number, Sort Code, Email Address and Tax Registration Number. For these reasons it is not possible at this stage to make community grants payable to Groups through Credit Union Accounts.