Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB
2:00 pm
Mr. Stephen Groarke:
There is a number of factors. There is no doubt that it is a risk, but when we do the underwriting associated with the restructure we do leave a small amount of money aside in terms of our assessments for issues like that to arise. It might not necessarily be an increase in ECB rates, it could be an increase in medical costs or other expenditure but we do not take the total net disposable income and assume that all of it is available to repay the mortgage, so that leaves some leeway for exceptional circumstances.
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