Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Overview of Banking Sector: AIB
1:10 pm
Mr. Brendan O'Connor:
Yes. The IMHO can deal with buy-to-let mortgages if there is one buy-to-let property. Effectively, where there is a consumer with a buy-to-let property, we have a different engagement channel than for somebody with five to ten buy-to-let properties, which is another segment of the market. However, to the extent that somebody has a buy-to-let property that has now become the principal private residence because he or she has moved into it, or to the extent that he or she has a single buy-to-let property that makes him or her a consumer buy-to-let owner rather than a professional buy-to-let owner, the answer is "Yes."
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