Finance Ireland has temporarily withdrawn one of its products due to the international credit crisis.
In a statement released today Finance Ireland, a company that allows elderly people to release equity from their home, said difficulties in the wholesale banking and mortgage securitisation markets means it was unable to secure "reasonably priced wholesale funding" for its Lifetime Mortgage products.
Chairman Billy Kane said Finance Ireland would continue to manage existing mortgage and reversionary asset portfolios and would honour all existing loan offers in issue.
"At a time when credit markets are all but closed it just does not make financial sense for a niche player like ourselves to continue to fund new lending."
Mr Kane said the company planned to reintroduce the products once "normal credit conditions return".