Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The CIA compiles reports on each country and has estimated that on 31 March 2016 Irish debt amounted to €2.15 trillion. How did that organisation calculate the overall debt of a country? It publishes figures for each country in different years and I looked at its figure for 31 March. Does the Central Bank analyse the rationale behind that figure?

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