Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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239. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of the national debt that is held by Irish bondholders; the proportion held by non-Irish bondholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1251/21]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the National Treasury Management Agency that, at end-2020 total Gross National Debt stood at €219.5 billion. The table below details the composition of Ireland’s Gross National Debt at end-December 2020, including that Government bonds accounted for €136.8 billion or 62.3%. This Government bonds figure includes fixed rate treasury bonds, amortising bonds, inflation linked bonds and Floating Rate Notes.

Table 1 - Gross National Debt composition as at 31 December 2020

Please note that the figures in Table 1 are provisional outturn figures.

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) publishes a statistical table on holdings of Irish Government Bonds on a monthly basis (available here: ).

The figures published on the CBI website, at end-November 2020, indicate that Irish Residents held €65.0 billion (nominal value) of Irish Government bonds while Non-Residents held €71.3 billion (nominal value) of Irish government bonds. CBI have indicated that these figures do not include inflation-linked bonds, which were issued as private placements.