Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Insolvency Service of Ireland

11:50 am

Mr. Christopher Lehane:

This is a real practical difficulty and it is one I am dealing with in bankruptcy. Equally, it is a difficulty, even if there is mortgage indebtedness, when people separate and there are two homes to be financed. In the normal course, that is a huge burden on both parties. The difficulty at present is that the property is in negative equity in the middle of all this, but it is not necessarily an insolvency issue.