Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on the Fiscal Position

Mr. Sebastian Barnes:

We have not looked at that explicitly. At the moment, the Government debt position is extremely favourable so that underpins these kinds of policies. It is always interesting to think about ways of improving the liquidity and diversity of the Government's funding sources and that might be an idea worth considering but it is not something which we have looked at.