Whatever about the traveling dairy, it is clear that, long before the era of Ryanair, or even before the era of direct car ferry services to the Continent, the family in which Garret grew up moved in a world of easy interaction with France, and other countries on the European mainland.
Bank licensing, bank branch expansion, refinance, and credit policies are geared towards this direction. The NRB is of the view that the expansion of the financial sector will be constrained without the growth of the real sector. Thus, priority has been accorded to the productive use of bank credit to the promotion of the real sector through judicious use of credit and macro-prudential policies.