Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2017

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

Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks

4:00 pm

Mr. Bernard Byrne:

I answered that question earlier. Everyone wants to find the one person responsible. The reality when each of the individual cohorts have been addressed is that when the tracker rate was suspended in the market as a result of the financial crisis and ceased to be a funding rate available to any institution, the rates for new customers were suspended, and as part of that programme, a clear mistake was made in terms of consideration of what would happen in terms of the contractual obligations or, later on, the transparency obligations that existed around-----

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