Varadkar warns banks over tracker loans

The Taoiseach has warned the banks to repay the thousands of people they wrongly took off tracker mortgages and apologise. However, Leo Varadkar said as far as he is concerned, the deadline for the repayment and apology was “yesterday”.

His stern remarks came as he also admitted in an interview with the Irish Examiner that it may be years before the pensions anomaly hurting tens of thousands of older people is resolved.

Mr Varadkar and the Cabinet met in Cork yesterday, the first such meeting for a government in the country’s second city in 12 years.