Tracker numbers ‘could rise higher’

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says he believes those affected by the tracker mortgage scandal will rise above the current 33,000 but will be “incremental rather than substantial” in number.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says he believes those affected by the tracker mortgage scandal will rise above the current 33,000 but will be “incremental rather than substantial” in number.

Mr Donohoe appeared before TDs and senators at the Oireachtas Finance Committee, where he would not say if the final bill for the tracker scandal would reach €1bn as previously estimated, but said that he understood how such a figure was extrapolated.