Governor of the Central Bank Philip Lane at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach today

Further to reports that 8,200 mortgage accounts – in which homeowners were overcharged because they were wrongly denied low interest tracker rates by 15 banks – had been identified by the Central Bank…

From a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach today…

It emerges at Oireachtas finance committee that, in fact, around 15,000 people will have been affected by Tracker scandal. Not 8,200.

— Jennifer Bray (@Jennifer_Bray) December 20, 2016

Related: Central Bank says 8,200 accounts now identified in tracker mortgage overcharging scandal (RTE)