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:
As I said, we have had a policy of writing off residual debt if required. We have spoken much about the regulation around reaching NPL levels, etc. There is also a significant focus by the Central Bank on consistency. We have to look at the affordability in those cases. That is why I cannot give the Senator an absolute. There could be a situation whereby there is affordability. If we just write off that debt, then one customer could be actually disadvantaged versus another. It is our policy to look at debt write-off as a solution as part of voluntary surrenders.
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