18 months since the Central Bank first announced an industry-wide investigation of tracker mortgage issues, I still haven’t been contacted by Ulster Bank, writes Caitriona Redmond.
The government is pressing ahead with an inquiry but it will be a while before it starts properly and there are a number of outstanding issues before it does.
The Public Accounts Committee’s report also recommended a change in the codes of State bodies to hold officials accountable even after they have retired.
After just barely pulling back from the precipice, industry is picking up, home prices are gaining, banks are stable and American consumers have started spending – albeit still with great caution.
Breaking via The Mire wire: Sean O’Rourke and Pat Kenny to wrestle, homeowner professes their love for Permanent TSB, and bankers mistreat their politicians.
AIB boss David Duffy said this week the bank would pull out of a process aimed at reaching a solution for all of the residents, and try and reach deals with just its own customers.
The bank’s CEO David Duffy said that no investigations had happened during his tenure and that discussing past directors would be “therapeutic but unfair”.
THIS MORNING BROUGHT news that Dublin City Council is to extend its 30 km/h speed limit in the city to nine further residential areas, Sandymount, Crumlin, and Glasnevin being just three.
Previously, the limit applied to the city centre area only, along with the northside suburb of Marino.
Reaction to the central speed limit was not universally positive when it was first introduced in 2013, while the AA has previously warned that certain improperly set, “needlessly low” limits, can damage the system as a whole, leading drivers to opt to break the limit rather than adhering to the law.
But is this something that affects you when driving in built-up areas?
We’re asking: Do you always obey urban speed limits?
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