Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 April 2019

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

Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion

Mr. Ed Sibley:

Yes. A total of 40% of the funding from the eurosystem was backed by mortgages, while the rest was backed by other collateral such as other lending and Government bonds. Emergency liquidity assistance is granted where the quality of the collateral is not high enough for eurosystem funding.

There would have been other types of collateral, including ultimately the promissory note.