OREANDA-NEWS. Outstanding government bonds stood at €127,298 million in March 2016, with Irish residents holding 40.4 per cent of the total. Irish credit institutions and the Central Bank of Ireland account for 92.7 per cent of the resident holdings (Chart 2).

Within the next 5 years, €56,914 million of government bonds will mature (Table 1). Of this, €22,927 million will mature in the next 3 years, with a further €33,987 million in the two years after. Non-residents hold 69.4 per cent of these maturing bonds (Chart 1).

Non-resident holdings decreased over the month to €75.9 billion. While this is €1.6bn greater than this time last year, the percentage holdings have decreased slightly, from 60.3 per cent to 59.6 per cent of total holdings.