Richard Boyd Barrett
Question:223. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the size of the national debt. [33517/19]
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Questions (223, 224)
Richard Boyd Barrett
Question:224. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of interest that will be paid on the national debt in 2020. [33518/19]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 223 and 224 together.
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) advise me that at end-June 2019 National (net) Debt was €188 billion.
Exchequer cash interest on the National Debt for 2020 was estimated at €4.8 billion in the Stability Programme Update (SPU) in April. This is a reduction of over €250 million on the Budget 2019 estimate of last October. The next estimate will be published as part of Budget 2020 in October.