Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2018

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

Tracker Mortgages: Central Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Professor Philip Lane:

The Senator may have noticed as this has moved along how, back in October, the 13,000 cases that the banks had accepted were broadly split between wrong margin and being denied a tracker rate. Being denied a tracker rate is much more costly. What we have now is three-quarters of the cases are those who were denied a tracker rate. There are more big cases now compared with earlier.