Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Conor O'Kelly:

It is down from €25 billion originally to below €10 billion. We are retiring and exchanging those promissory notes, which are held by the Central Bank, to which we pay floating rate interest, and exchanging them for debt on the open market. A timetable was agreed with the Central Bank and European Central Bank to do that when the notes were originally issued. We would accelerate that because interest rates are so low. By doing that a bit faster, we lock in today's very low rates.

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