Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

-----and that is what we are dealing with. The scale of it is set out in the €80billion-€90 billion figure.

To answer the questions that were put today, roughly one third of that is held outside the Republic but half of it would be in Northern Ireland. If we take the island of Ireland as our measure of home or abroad, roughly 15% to 20%, depending on the institution, is held outside the country, primarily in London, New York and in other cities in the United States.

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