Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency

2:00 pm

Mr. Conor O'Kelly:

Right now, QE is continuing and there is no decision to do any tapering or change the outlook. We will continue to be a very significant beneficiary of it. At some point, one has lengthened one's maturity. For us, initially, it gave us the opportunity to lengthen the maturity, issue 30 years and have a disproportionate interest in going longer. Now, we have the luxury of having a 12-year average, which is one of the longest maturities in Europe, and that means when we come to auction, we want to go to the cheapest place on that particular day at that particular time. It gives one the luxury of getting oneself into that position whereas at the beginning of 2015, one just needed to lengthen the maturity and get some longer dated debt.

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