Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB
11:50 am
Mr. Shane O'Sullivan:
For the record, more generous. I would also add that we stress test. Where there is free cash flow, we do not take 100% of that cash flow; we take 90% of it. Let us say the disposable income is €1,000, that is, in the more generous expenditure review than, say, the ISI review, we will not take that €1,000 as being available for the mortgage repayment. We will take €900 being available for the payment for exactly the reason Senator Hayden set out, that sometimes expenditure is more than people planned and real life kicks in. One does not want to put a sustainable solution in place only to find X months down the road that people are back in arrears because the expenditure guidelines were too conservative.
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