Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Tracker Mortgages: KBC Bank
4:00 pm
Ms Dara Deering:
When a bank makes a decision as to whether a mortgage is sustainable, it takes everything into consideration. We ask what we would have done at a specific point in time, had the customer been on the correct rate.
It is a real example. Had their tracker mortgage payment been correct, it would have been just under €1,000. While they could not afford that, we would have offered them a lower repayment option. If they can afford to meet that, we deem we have caused the loss of ownership.