Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the amount of Government bonds held by each of the Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22410/11]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to his question number 14024/11 on this topic which was taken on Thursday, 2 June 2011 and provided data on the sovereign exposures of the four domestic institutions subject to the Prudential Capital Assessment Review (PCAR) 2011 exercise. Detailed information on the sovereign exposure of the four institutions was published by the Central Bank in the Financial Measures Programme Report on 31 March 2011. The Central Bank also published the results of the European Banking Authority (EBA) stress tests on Allied Irish Bank (AIB), Bank of Ireland and Irish Life and Permanent (IL&P) on 15 July 2011 and they are available on the Bank's website. I am informed by the Central Bank that those results which, like the data given in my reply of 2 June 2011 in relation to the PCAR exercise, are based on the situation at 31 December 2010, include data for the debt holdings of the Irish banks but figures for holdings of Irish government bonds are not shown separately.