Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I am looking at the calculation for every 1% change in the annual cost of servicing the debt. It is €500 million euro to service the debt. This is a very sizeable amount of money and it limits the State's scope to do other things. When it goes from 3% to 3.5% the 0.5% makes quite a bit of difference.
These accounts tell us that the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, has paid off the Danish and the Swedish bilateral debts. The UK debt remains. Is that €7 billion?
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