Written answers
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Department of Finance
Small and Medium Enterprises Debt
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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181. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest information he has available as to the amount of small and medium enterprise debt outstanding; the amount which is in arrears; the amount classified as non-performing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29811/15]
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Central Bank that they do not publish statistics on SME debt as part of any of their statistical series. However, the Bank do publish the level of outstanding debt, through the statistical release "Trends in Business Credit and Deposits: Q1 2015", which indicates that total loans by Irish resident credit institutions to Irish resident SMEs was €52.8 billion at end-March. This publication is available on the Central Bank website at
The Deputy may be interested in the Central Bank publication "SME Market Report 2015 H1", which reports on SME default numbers (as per the Basel II definition of default). This publication is available on the Central Bank website: .
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