Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2018

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

Tracker Mortgages: Central Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Professor Philip Lane:

Maybe I will make just one more point. The biggest problem was that ECB interest rates fluctuated. When the ECB rate went up in 2006 or 2007, people with tracker mortgages were tempted to move to a fixed rate. The problem was that they did so in the belief that they would go back to the tracker mortgage or-----

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