Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

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

Business of Joint Committee
Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Ulster Bank

1:30 pm

Mr. Paul Stanley:

We apologise for that. What has happened is not right. We found this out as we were going through the wider examination as part of the tracker mortgage examination of our book. I will let Mr. Cullen go through the details of it. In essence, what has happened here is customers were informed the rate was changing on their accounts, and as we went through the tracker mortgage examination and investigated wider customer documentation it became apparent that with regard to a cohort of customers, even though we advised the rate was changing, and it did change, contractually we did not have the right to do so. We did with regard to other customers, to be clear, but we did not with regard to that cohort.