Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mason:

Yes, there are. There has been significant interaction. We sit on the BPFI mortgage-to-rent working group which interacts closely with the Housing Agency. There have been recent changes in what can happen in a mortgage-to-rent case. For example, people with modest positive equity can now apply. In the past people with one or two spare rooms could not have applied. If the property was too big it was not deemed eligible. That criterion has changed of late. A number of parameters have changed, which should help the number increase. We hope that will happen over the coming months.

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