Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
11:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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The question of servicing of the State debt was touched on earlier. The figure was €209 billion at the end of December 2019. It will now be up to €220 billion. Will there be a substantial increase? We are obviously going to have to pay back capital as well as interest. What likely change will arise in respect of same?