Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011

11:30 am

Mr. John Corrigan:

We have consistently done that because it would be unwise to engage in such speculation. Our views on that issue are market sensitive. Coming into 2013, if we are to have good visibility on our funding in respect of 2014, which is the year we come out of the programme, including the €2.4 billion in the bond issue to which the Deputy referred, we believe we will have to do of the order of €10 billion, in round terms, in bond issuance in 2013. It would be our desire during the course of 2013, subject to market conditions, to do some sort of syndicated issue, which we have not done to date. Our funding during the course of 2012, while it was material and materially reduced the funding cliff, it was on what we would describe as an opportunistic basis. We need to get back to a more regular pattern of funding, which we have succeeded in doing on the treasury bill market. We have our monthly auctions there now, which are in a groove-----

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