Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Tracker Mortgages: Ulster Bank
9:00 am
Mr. Paul Stanley:
It was due to a combination of factors. One is that the economic circumstances which the banking industry and the country were going through back in 2008 meant that the tracker product was loss-making. Banks will take products out of their ranges at any point in time. In taking these products out of their ranges, I do not believe sufficient consideration was given to the implications for customers who might have come off a tracker and onto a fixed rate and for other such instances. That is what I believe happened.
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