Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Ms Mary Burke:

Sorry, I beg your pardon. Yes, there was a guidance we had imposed on mortgage lenders that in the case of individual applications for mortgages they should stress test them for a 2% increase in interest rate and assess whether or not the applicant was in a position to afford that. That was implemented by the prudential department. It is now actually housed on the consumer side, in the context of affordability, and it is built into our consumer protection code.

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