Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Mr. Matthew Elderfield:

Well, a couple of things. Split mortgages were put on the table by the Keane report of about October the year before. We required the banks to pilot split mortgages last autumn. If one wants to be generous, that is why it is a bit late. The problem really is, as I say, it has been predominantly short-term interest only, which is not satisfactory. Hence the reasons for the targets, which is to say not only must one go faster, it has got to be on sustainable terms and short-term interest only is not good enough.

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