Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Central Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Ed Sibley:

One of the issues in the mortgage market today is that if we want a secured lending market, security must mean something. There is a degree of uncertainty or fracture between the secured part and the lending part. There is a higher risk here as it takes a lot longer to effect the process to which the Deputy referred than it does in other jurisdictions.