Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank
3:35 pm
Mr. Jim Brown:
It is always done on a case-by-case basis. If a customer was manifestly unable to service the debt and was clearly going to be in a difficult position, the calculation any bank would make to avoid what could be anything from €3,000 to €13,000 in legal costs and anything up to five years of delay in resolving the situation is whether it makes sense if the customer works in a sensible way with the lender to resolve that with a mutually agreeable sale. Would we look favourably at whatever the residual might be and, on a case-by-case basis, yes we would.
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