AIB Apologises for incorrect information about 12,000 customers to credit bureau over 6 years
Irish Credit Bureau corrects records misreported by AIB
The Irish Credit Bureau has said it has fully corrected all relevant customer records, following AIB’s admission that it misreported missed customer loan repayments to it over a six-year period.
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) sent incorrect information about 12,000 customers to the Irish Credit Bureau over six years, thebank admitted today.
The data was part of the mass of information that the Irish Credit Bureau (ICB) collects about the loan repayment track records of millions of borrowers.
It is used by banks as a key factor in deciding whether or not to lend to prospective customers.
AIB said it had provided incorrect information to the ICB between 2006 and 2012. The error relates to customers who were in arrears on loans to AIB,
The error occurred when customers whose loan repayments were due weekly or fortnightly missed a payment.
When the ICB was told of the missed payment, AIB recorded each case as being a month in arrears, not a week or two weeks.
It resulted in incorrect statements to the ICB of the affected customer’s repayment history.
The error came to light after a customer queried a report of their credit history recorded by the ICB.
Ireland’s Katie Taylor through to a shot at a historic gold medal boxing final ‘after a 17-9 Semi-final win’
Katie Taylor (in red) during her comfortable semi-final win over Mavzuna Chorieva of Tajikistan & right after the fight happy with father Peter (right) and technical coach Zaur Anita.
They crowded around Katie Taylor in the mixed zone as if she were Ireland’s greatest sporting treasure after the world’s stand-out female boxer had dominated Tajikistan’s Mavzuna Chorieva 17-9 to reach the Olympic lightweight boxing final. The relief is that Taylor has finally brought Ireland to the party.
The fleet-footed 26-year-old Bray girl has emerged as Ireland’s most realistic gold medal hope at these Games. A phalanx of cameras and reporters — and even political sketch writers — are here scrutinising every move the fledgling Olympian is making.
Taylor, from the coastal town of Bray in County Wicklow, revealed she expected to sleep for only two hours prior to the final. She admitted that a day’s rest would be perfect, but her career, already decorated with four world titles, reaches its pinnacle today.
This is no brash or brazen woman. Taylor is deeply religious. Her father is her coach, her mother was a boxing judge. She speaks so quietly it seems inconceivable that she fights with such venom. She said: “It’s amazing to box for the gold medal tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind the day off, but that’s just because I’m lazy. I have trouble getting sleep before a big fight but I’ll still manage to get a couple of hours in.
“The support has been amazing. It’s like fighting at home. Hopefully there will be a lot of young girls sitting at home watching this, and they’ll realise that this is something they can work towards. It is amazing for women’s boxing.”
Taylor continued to show impressive hand speed and technical know-how at this first Olympic women’s boxing event. She delivered a fulsome, brutal victory over the game boxer from Central Asia. There is never any letting up from Taylor as she bounces from ball to ball of her feet, poised for attack.
The Irish fighter looks untouchable, and her performance brought the house down.
Chorieva came out with great confidence and landed the first punches but Taylor then landed against the Tajik with a couple of combinations and one excellent left, to go to the corner 3-1 up. The teenage Tajik dropped her hands, pushed her tongue out, and tried to forced the Irishwoman off her gameplan.
Thereafter, though, Taylor had the bout her way. The fans were rejoicing. They were in rapture. It might have been Munster’s Thomond Park as they sang the Fields of Athenry. Taylor took the second 4-2 and there was a sense of her easing away from Chorieva. From then on, Taylor took complete control, moving ahead 13-6 after the third, and then showing all her class in the fourth round, to finish the contest as winner of all four rounds.
Taylor now faces the Russian and world No 2 Sofya Ochigava in a repeat of May’s World Championship final in China. Taylor won a record fourth world title there, and has not been beaten in a major competition for six years. Ochigava came through a tough battle with Adriana Araujo of Brazil
The Irish Government should not make any more mistake’s with property tax
The Labour Party chairman Colm Keaveney says the government should wait and make sure it gets the property tax right, rather than make any mistakes, if it becomes a complicated process.
Colm Keaveney was responding to proposals from one tax expert, that the introduction of the new tax should be put off for a year.
At the moment, it’s due to be rolled out next year, to replace the current flat-rate household charge.
Galway East Deputy Colm Keaveney outlined the kind of system he’d like to see introduced: “It would pick up the size of the house, the location of the home and the level of amentities.
“It would develop a matrix, a sliding scale of a fair system based on an ability to pay. If it’s complicated to construct this system, then I would much prefer if we wait and get it right than make any mistakes at the outset.”
‘Ming Flanagan in’ Jeans banned in new Dáil dress code
Shabby TDs will have to look smart if they want to be heard and get their speak in when the Dáil returns next month.
A new dress code being finalised by the committee on procedures and privileges hopes to do away with deputies parading around the chamber in jeans and T-shirts.
New rules would see speaking rights withheld from TDs who do not abide by the stricter dress code, which will demand that male deputies wear formal trousers, a collared shirt, and a jacket while in the chamber or at committee meetings, while women members will be barred from wearing jeans.
A member of the committee said the issue was discussed at the watchdog’s last session and the new restrictions would come into force when the Dáil resumes in late September.
The rules would be enforced via the Ceann Comhairle, who has the power to call, or not to call, members to speak.
The move could provoke another clash between the Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett and Independent TD Luke “Ming” Flanagan.
Mr Flanagan has so far refused to apologise to the Ceann Comhairle for an ugly altercation in a Leinster House corridor last month.
The committee on procedures and privileges wrote to Mr Flanagan insisting he make a public apology to the Ceann Comhairle for what it called a “vicious, unprovoked verbal assault”.
This was on foot of Mr Flanagan and fellow Independent TD John Halligan confronting Mr Barrett in a corridor to complain about the way the Personal Insolvency Bill was handled.
The TDs deny they verbally assaulted Mr Barrett and have refused to apologise to him.
Flanagan has also used his Facebook page to make highly personal remarks about the Ceann Comhairle.
In one entry, Mr Flanagan claimed he had been told it was against the rules to approach the Ceann Comhairle in the corridor, adding: “That rule must not count in the Dáil bar where I understand he regularly freely associates with TDs while guzzling pints. He can’t have it both ways.”
Mr Flanagan has accused Mr Barrett of being biased in his conduct and a “miserable failure in carrying out his responsibility”.
Currently, the Leinster House dress code merely instructs members to “dress in a manner that reflects the dignity of the House”.
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