Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Okay, if somebody was to take out an investment product, or let's say, to invest in a buy to let because they had a lot of equity in their property, they bought it in 1980s and so forth, which would be on the ... typical customer of most banks in and around the early 2000s. A lot of people would have their mortgage well pared down and there would have been massive equity on their property because of house inflation at the time. Were there bonuses for those type of products?