Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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To ask the Minister for Finance the schedule of interest payments and repayments of bonds in relation to sovereign debt in 2013; and if he will provide a breakdown by amount and to whom the payments are made. [46358/12]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The data requested by the Deputy, which has been provided by the NTMA, is provided in the table below. The estimates in this table are calculated on the basis of the end-September 2012 government bond debt position and will of course be subject to change. I would also like to make the Deputy aware that the data provided relates only to Government bonds, and does not include principal or interest payments related to other debt instruments, such as EU/IMF Programme funding, Treasury Bills and retail debt products.

With regard to the ownership of Government bonds, the manner in which they are settled and registered does not allow for the identification of individual holders. The Central Bank of Ireland, which is the registrar for Irish government bonds, identified a split of 27% domestic and 73% foreign holders at the end of June 2012.

Source: NTMA

Rounding may affect totals