Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion
Mr. Ed Farrell:
That has occurred since the recession. Ten years ago before the recession, credit unions did not offer mortgages, which is one of the reasons we did not need any bailouts. Any mortgages we have given have been since the recession. We have gone from zero to a couple of hundred million euro in mortgages and that figure will increase. However, this is still done on an individual credit union basis and depends on the appetite of the relevant board and so on. It is not centralised, which means we are helping on a back office basis. The mortgage of a certain credit union in Cork or Limerick will be on its balance sheet and is not centralised. We promoted a centralised model but the proposal did not go anywhere.
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