Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 March 2018

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

Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Allied Irish Banks

9:30 am

Mr. Jim O'Keeffe:

Yes. There are a number of strands to this. We are pleased at this point about it, and I think our partners are as well. iCare itself has just under 300 confirmed cases that we believe it will follow through on and complete. To put this in context, when we launched this with iCare last September, the industry over the previous five years had completed 250 in total. If we move those through the pipeline, and I am confident we will, it will work well. From our perspective, the other piece, which we had hoped for and we are seeing coming through, is that in January we wrote to more than 3,000 of our customers who are in the legal process to signal to them that this solution was available. Obviously, engagement has been a challenge with that group. We have received more than 1,100 responses in this regard. As Deputy Doherty knows, we complete the standard financial statement. We have completed more than 300 of those at this stage. They are either suitable for mortgage-to-rent or they may be suitable for some other solution. In the round we are pleased at this stage, but-----

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