Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank
3:50 pm
Mr. Jim Brown:
I do not believe that it is doing write-offs but I will double check that to be sure. To be clear, the £15 billion or €18 billion was injected into Ulster Bank to cover the losses we had incurred. It was not to arbitrarily carry out more write-offs, write-downs or anything like that. It was to cover the losses we had incurred.
With all the restructuring we have put in place, I expect Ulster Bank will be profitable again this year, as I outlined in my opening statement. However, we have a long way to go to earn a reasonable return on the £15 billion.
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