Banks accused of racism over AIDS test practice

PERMANENT TSB has denied that questions or conditions are imposed on the basis of race in respect of mortgage protection insurance applicants from sub-Saharan Africa.

The financial institution was responding to a prominent immigrants’ rights campaigner, Benedicta Attoh from Nigeria, who stood in last year’s council elections in Dundalk.

Ms Attoh, who eventually secured a mortgage with AIB Bank, was asked by both the AIB and Permanent TSB to be tested for the AIDS virus last year.