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‘Cash in plain sight at doors’ says candidate STUART HOLLY
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GENERAL election candidate has told The Clare Echo that he is very alarmed by the “large quantities” of money he has seen in plain sight as he calls to the doors of potential
voters. Canvassing doors across the county in recent days, Councillor Cathal Crowe (FF) from south-east Clare has blamed flaws in the modern banking system as the main contributory
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factor in elderly people keeping cash at home. He said in a statement, “Banking in Ireland has moved fully into the 21st century. It’s now largely automated and the customer has very little face-to-face interaction with bank staff. “This new style of banking works well for those who are technically savvy but it has been very off-putting to many elderly people. It sadly seems that, in many ways, we’ve gone back to the ‘money under the mattress’ days. He added, “Last week I broached the subject with a woman in her late-eighties that I know... She goes to her local town in the county twice a week but has given up entirely on going to her bank for any lodgements or withdrawals. “Her daughter withdraws money from her pension on a weekly basis and this is what she gets by on. This money isn’t being stored securely in the house and is in the plain sight of anyone who visits.”
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