Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion
Mr. John Hannigan:
It goes right back to the beginning of our existence. The reality is that anything new, regardless of where it comes from, is now considered to be Government debt and on the Government's balance sheet. As the Vice Chairman rightly said, if we were successful in borrowing from the credit unions effectively it would immediately become State debt. It is counted as State debt within the fiscal rules.