Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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275. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 6 July 2021, if a standalone list will be provided of all publicly controlled market operators that are included in the Register of Public Sector Bodies in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37630/21]

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Finance the debt held by each of the publicly controlled market operators in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37631/21]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 275 and 276 together.

As the Deputy will be aware, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) is responsible for classifying all entities in the State into the appropriate sector of the economy. The Register of Public Sector Bodies in Ireland is compiled by the CSO and as of the last publication, April 2021, there are approximately just over 250 publicly controlled market operators on the register, split between non-financial and financial corporations. A comprehensive list of publicly controlled market operators is available on the CSO's website at the following link: 

https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/methods/nationalaccountsoutputandvalueaddedbyactivity/Register_of_Public_Sector_Bodies_in_Ireland_April_2020.pdf 

At present, there are no official statistics compiled for publicly controlled market operators which would be able to answer the Deputy’s question in relation to the debt held by such operators. However, my Department recently published a research paper on ‘Ireland’s Public Sector Balance Sheet’in April 2021, which contains a detailed analysis of public sector assets and liabilities. This report is the first of its kind for Ireland and is very much at the cutting edge of research for fiscal sustainability analysis.  Ireland is in the company of an elite group of countries which have published data on public sector assets and liabilities.  The report provides a deep analysis of public corporations and looks at their contribution to public sector net worth over the last two decades. The report is available publicly at the following link: .