Users can find lost cash sitting in dormant accounts in banks, building societies andNationalSavingsandInvestments.
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Even NationalSavingsandInvestments isn't truly state run as the products and services are predominantly rebranded Bank of Ireland facilities.
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The mutual sector has complained of stiff competition for savers' money from the nationalised and part-nationalised banks and from government-backed NationalSavingsandInvestments during the past couple of years.
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