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# arrears - Tuesday 8 October, 2019
Ulster Bank sells portfolio of 3,175 mortgages to Pepper
There are 2,800 home loans and 375 buy-to-let loans included in the portfolio.
# arrears - Tuesday 21 May, 2019
Taoiseach asks for details about letters sent to mortgage-holders demanding full payment of arrears within 30 days
Taoiseach has said it is now time for to review the tax treatment of vulture funds.
# arrears - Friday 19 April, 2019
Experts say 'vulture friendly' commentary from government is 'dangerous'
An Oireachtas committee yesterday heard legislation is needed to ensure banks cannot sell mortgages to vulture funds without a customer’s consent.
# arrears - Saturday 13 April, 2019
Concerns over letters sent to mortgage-holders demanding full payment of arrears within 30 days
The Central Bank is aware that a regulated entity has written to a number of buy-to-let borrowers in arrears.
# arrears - Tuesday 26 February, 2019
Cabinet to consider Bill to help borrowers in mortgage arrears
The Bill aims to broaden the matters a judge needs to take into account when considering repossessions.
# arrears - Saturday 2 February, 2019
State will no longer automatically pay for barristers in personal insolvency cases
Changes to the funding structure of the government’s mortgage arrears assistance scheme mean solicitors will have to show why they need a barrister for each case.
# arrears - Monday 28 January, 2019
Government scheme to help families in mortgage distress 'fails 70% who turn to it'
Just 30% of those who engaged with Abhaile’s financial advice have a solution in place or are on track for one.
# arrears - Sunday 13 January, 2019
'History will judge this': Experts see little change in bank culture after scandals and protests
People who are working every day with customers in arrears say lenders are still refusing to cooperate in any significant way.
# arrears - Friday 11 January, 2019
'It's your job to call the vulture funds out': High Court Master pens letter to Micheál Martin
Edmund Honohan urged the Fianna Fáil leader to support a piece of legislation he wrote that is currently before the Dáil.
# arrears - Friday 28 December, 2018
Varadkar says he's reluctant to use the term 'vulture fund' to describe firms that have bought up Irish mortgages
Varadkar says he tried to remove split mortgage-holders from recent loan book sales but failed to do so.
# arrears - Sunday 23 December, 2018
Union says KBC staff 'extremely upset and stressed' by recent incidents
KBC Ireland said it is taking additional measures to ensure the safety of its staff.
# arrears - Saturday 22 December, 2018
The myth of the free council house: 'We're not just handing them over, that would be crazy'
Dublin City Council tenants paid a total of €78.3 million in rent last year.
# arrears - Thursday 20 December, 2018
Almost 7,000 loans in arrears held by 'unregulated loan owners'
Unregulated loan owners hold 17% of all mortgages in arrears over 720 days.
# arrears - Saturday 24 November, 2018
No vulture fund or bank has ever been sanctioned for breaching the code of conduct
The Central Bank said no sanctions have been put in place since the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears commencement in 2009.
FactCheck: Are there really 20,000 possession cases before the courts?
There has been a slowdown in the number of cases being issued, but it is unclear where exactly the situation stands now.
# arrears - Saturday 17 November, 2018
FactCheck: Has the number of cases taken by banks over arrears halved in two years?
Brendan Burgess claims there is “no tsunami” of arrears cases now.
# arrears - Monday 29 October, 2018
Mica scandal: Family living in 'falling down house' finds out mortgage has been sold to vulture fund
Just a month before the government announced a redress scheme for the thousands of impacted homeowners, Karl Murtagh was told his mortgage had been sold.
# arrears - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
Call for householders to be given free legal aid to address 'power imbalance' during reposessions
Minister Charlie Flanagan today praised the success of the Abhaile legal advice scheme, but did not indicate it would be extended to provide full representation.
# arrears - Friday 31 August, 2018
Ulster Bank sold mortgages to vulture fund despite offer to buy loans for mortgage to rent
The vulture fund that bought the loans has confirmed it is not currently putting forward cases for this scheme.
# arrears - Saturday 18 August, 2018
'Mary' is recovering from cancer and her mortgage - in €29k arrears - has been sold to a vulture fund
‘Mary’ has been out of work since her cancer diagnosis. She had no idea her mortgage was to be sold to a vulture fund.
# arrears - Monday 13 August, 2018
Ulster Bank to sell 5,200 'non-performing' mortgages to vulture fund
The portfolio, worth €1.4 billion, is to be sold to Cerberus Capital Management LP.
# arrears - Sunday 29 July, 2018
How many mortgage holders were taken to the High Court by banks so far this year?
The numbers are down on recent years but there still has been almost 300 cases initiated in the High Court.
# arrears - Tuesday 10 July, 2018
'Say no to vulture funds': Applause breaks out as TD calls for support for new law aimed at keeping people in their homes
The bill, written by the Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan, was introduced in the Dáil today.
# arrears - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
Storm Emma caused higher levels of mortgage arrears as customers missed in-branch payments
The number of accounts in arrears over 720 days has fallen but these cases still account for 41% of all accounts in arrears.
# arrears - Friday 8 June, 2018
'One thousand days like this': High Court Master questions banks on their 'pressing need' to evict people
This week Edmund Honohan again highlighted the need for a legal aid system in repossession cases.
# arrears - Thursday 17 May, 2018
'This is a human crisis': David Hall believes 17,000 families will have homes repossessed
Hall told the Finance Committee that a narrative has been fostered that people in long-term arrears are “messers”.
# arrears - Thursday 22 March, 2018
Even PTSB customers who are meeting revised loan terms will have mortgages sold to vulture funds
Executives blamed the European regulator for the classification of these loans as non-performing.
# arrears - Saturday 24 February, 2018
PTSB chief refuses to appear before Finance Committee next week over loan sale
The bank recently announced it is to sell off a €3.7 billion portfolio of non-performing loans, including mortgages 14,000 private dwelling homes.
# arrears - Friday 23 February, 2018
Mortgages sell-off will disrupt already-volatile housing market, charities warn
Ulster Bank said today that it would be looking to offload around 7,000 mortgages on top of PTSB’s proposed 18,000.
# arrears - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
'They're for the chop': High Court Master says 'wave of repossessions' on the horizon
Master Honohan asked if it’s a “sick joke” that people writing to the Taoiseach were told to seek help from Abhaile.
# arrears - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
High Court Master writes new legislation to help keep people in their homes
The bill would give greater powers to the government’s Abhaile scheme and provide stronger protections for people who are in debt.
# arrears - Monday 25 December, 2017
'There is a solution for everybody': Debtors urged not to put their heads in the sand in 2018
Legal and financial experts say there are ways they can help – especially if people come to them at an early stage.
# arrears - Sunday 24 December, 2017
Poll: Should the State relax free legal aid rules to cover more arrears cases?
More than 30,000 accounts have been in arrears for more than two years.
# arrears - Saturday 9 December, 2017
High Court Master says government's legal advice scheme is 'a scam'
Edmund Honohan criticised the government for failing to deliver systems it had promised to help keep people in their homes.
# arrears - Sunday 26 November, 2017
Poll: Should Ireland have a separate court to deal with mortgage arrears cases?
Ten percent of home mortgage accounts in this country are in arrears.
# arrears - Saturday 11 November, 2017
High Court Master lashes KBC and tells father in arrears to write to Taoiseach
Edmund Honohan: ‘What kind of a way is that for a bank to approach its customers?’
# arrears - Friday 8 September, 2017
Farmer sues receiver and 'vulture fund' who have threatened to sell his stock
He fears such action would destroy his business, the High Court has heard.
# arrears - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
Man with intellectual disabilities loses control of income after spending money on dating sites
The man’s food and rent bills have fallen into arrears by almost €2,000.
# arrears - Wednesday 2 August, 2017
'Deal with your debt problems': The number of people seeking insolvency is on the rise
€588 million worth of insolvency applications were made between April and June this year.
# arrears - Sunday 16 July, 2017
Women being 'forced into homelessness' as former partners refuse to sign arrears deals
Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibin raised a number of examples that he said fall outside the remit of processes the government put in place to protect people.
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WHILE MANY RETAIL outlets are closed for now, you can still get your hands on easter eggs when you go for a shop.
They’ve been on sale for quite a while, but the Easter Bunny may not actually deliver eggs until Sunday week – Easter Sunday.
Any egg hunts taking place this year will look significantly different to how they may have been before the current crisis, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still tuck into one before then.
So, today we’re asking you: When is it acceptable to start eating Easter eggs?
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