Personal Debt

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 May 2016

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Questions (15)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

15. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance given the Central Bank of Ireland's private debt figure, households and corporations combined, which came to 258% of gross domestic product in the third quarter of 2015, the details of the monetary value of private debt, households and corporations combined, by households, by small and medium enterprises, by multinational corporations, by foreign multinational corporations, by banking and by foreign banking including foreign businesses in the Irish Financial Services Centre, in tabular form. [9199/16]

Written answers

Minister for Finance

Please find data provided by the Central Bank of Ireland as follows.

€ millions	Q3 2015 Total Loan Liabilities
1. Non-financial corporations	366,018
2. Households and NPISHs	151,179
Total Private Sector [1+2]	517,197

*NPISH refers to non-profit institutions serving households

Data on the stock of private sector credit outstanding firm size (SMEs) on a quarterly basis is available here http://www.centralbank.ie/polstats/stats/cmab/Pages/BusinessCredit.aspx). Data by residency (resident versus non resident) is available in the Locational Banking Statistics published by the Central Bank (http://www.centralbank.ie/polstats/stats/locational/Pages/data.aspx) showing the net position (liabilities less deposits) of domestic versus IFSC banks, but figures are not reported to the same level of disaggregation as that reported in the table.