Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the level of consumer debt here; if he will indicated by sector, the extent of debt of house mortgages, hire-purchase loans, credit cards, and other secured or unsecured loans of a personal nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27095/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Private sector credit growth and debt levels are, in the first instance, a matter for the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland and details are published by the Bank in their Quarterly Bulletins.

Set out as follows is a breakdown of personal (consumer) debt outstanding at the end of the first quarter of 2009. Information is available for total personal sector lending, house mortgage finance, other housing finance, finance for investment and other personal lending including credit card debt, as compiled by the Central Bank. The Central Bank does not separately identify personal-sector hire purchase loans in the banks' returns.

Source: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland