Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

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

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kieran Bristow:

We refer to the global portfolio transition strategy which is just a fancy name for how we invest short-term in liquid assets to ensure the money is readily available for investing in Ireland. Most of the debt instruments have a maturity of five years or fewer because that is the timescale over which we expect to need the money. These instruments have an average life of about three years with a maximum of five years.