Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

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

Tracker Mortgages and Differential Pricing in Insurance: Discussion

Mr. Ger Deering:

It is very hard to know. We do not know if there will be a surge. Certainly, numbers reached a peak in 2018 and we have not received as many in 2019 as we did last year. When I issue certain decisions, people may identify that their mortgage falls within the same category. As we discussed earlier, if the banks apply those decisions across all of those cohorts, it should not be necessary for people to complain. We hope that people will get a resolution to their problem without having to come to us, but we are available if they need to come to us.