Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Banking Issues: Discussion
Dr. Colin Hunt:
Yes. I am talking about official interest rates. The Deputy will be aware of what we did in respect of the first 0.5% increase. We are currently considering our response to the most recent rate increase. I am conscious of the fact that AIB is the biggest mortgage lender in the country, with a mortgage market share of somewhere in the low 30 percentage points. I am conscious of the shape of our lending book in that more than half of it is fixed, but we have not yet gone through the process of considering our response to it. I am equally conscious of the struggles people are facing at this time.
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