| Table Name | Ireland |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | John Sheridan |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Statistician |
| 1.3 Organization | Central Statistics Office |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | Ardee Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6, D06 FX52 |
| 1.5 Country | Ireland |
| 1.6 Email | john.sheridan@cso.ie |
| 1.7 Telephone | +353 1 4984258 |
| 2.0 Concepts, Definitions and Scope | |
| 2.1 Statistical frameworks for the compilation of external debt data | 2013 External Debt Statistics Guide/6th Edition of Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) |
| 2.2 Consistency with the external debt liabilities of the International Investment Position (IIP) | Yes |
| 2.3 Additional Information on Concepts, Definitions and Scope | None |
| 3.0 Sector Classification/Coverage | |
| 3.1 Data coverage for General Government | Fully covered |
| 3.2 Data coverage for Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.3 Data coverage for Deposit-taking corporations, except the Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.4 Data coverage for Other Sectors | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.5 Data coverage for Other financial corporations | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) | Partly covered, with some gaps |
| 3.8 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.9 External debt statistics presented into Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector and Private Sector Not Publicly Guar. Debt | No |
| 3.10 External debt include both foreign currency and domestic currency denominated debt instruments held by nonresidents | Yes |
| 3.11 Additional comments and explanations on Sector Classification/Coverage | At present we do not capture household data directly although much of household debt would be captured through entities we do capture. |
| 4.0 Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | |
| 4.1 Data coverage for Currency and deposits | Fully covered |
| 4.2 Data coverage for Debt Securities | Fully covered |
| 4.3 Data coverage for Loans | Fully covered |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Fully covered |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Fully covered |
| 4.6 Data coverage for Special drawing rights (allocations) | Fully covered |
| 4.7 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investment enterprises to direct investors | Fully covered |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | Yes |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | No |
| 4.12 Classification of maturity for short-term/long-term debt instruments | Both original and remaining maturity |
| 4.13 Additional comments and explanations on Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | (i) SDR allocations are included from 2002Q4 to 2011Q4 and not included thereafter. |
| 5.0 Valuation and Basis of Recording | |
| 5.1 Main valuation method for debt securities (in main table) | Market Value |
| 5.2 Main valuation method for debt securities (in memorandum items) | Not reporting debt securities in memorandum items. |
| 5.3 Other methods and weights used for valuation of debt securities | None |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | Accrual Basis |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | Yes |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | Data are sourced from surveys of companies as well as data from government and the central bank. |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/balanceofpayments/ |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/surveysandmethodologies/surveys/bop/documents/pdfs/qiipexd.pdf |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | Central Statistics Office |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Central Statistics Office |
| 7.0 Periodicity and Timeliness | |
| 7.1 Frequency of external debt statistics compilation | Quarterly |
| 7.2 Frequency of external debt statistics dissemination | Quarterly |
| 7.3 Timeliness of the publication of the external debt statistics | No later than T+85 |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | They are published with our IIP |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | Regular schedule -Every June we revise the previous two years. So for example this June we will publish Q1 2016 as well as revising 2014 and 2015. |
| 9.0 Unit of Measure | |
| 9.1 Unit of Measure | Data are in USD. |
| 10.0 Reference Period | |
| 10.1 Reference Period | (i) Data are available starting from 2002Q4. (ii) Data converted through generic conversion from 2003 EDS Guide/BPM5 to 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis by the World Bank from 2002Q4 to 2011Q4. (iii) Data reported by country on a 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis starting from 2012Q1. (iv) As per 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 methodology, data includes SDR allocations sourced from IMF (the creditor) for period 2002Q4 to 2011Q1, and not included by the country from 2012Q1 onward. |
| 11.0 Table Reporting | |
| 11.1 Table 1 - Gross External Debt Position: by Sector (Prescribed component) | Yes |
| 11.2 Table 2 - Gross External Debt Position: Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency Denominated Debt (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.3 Table 3 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.4 Table 4-Gross External Debt Position:Principal and Interest Payments Due in 1 Yr or less -by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.5 Table 1.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Debt Securities - Reconciliation of Nominal and Market Value | No |
| 11.6 Table 1.2 - Gross External Debt Position: Other Sectors | No |
| 11.7 Table 1.3 - Gross External Debt Position: Public Sector Debt and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector Debt | No |
| 11.8 Table 1.4 - Gross External Debt Position: Arrears by Sector | No |
| 11.9 Table 1.5 - Net External Debt Position: by Sector | No |
| 11.10 Table 1.6 - Gross External Debt Position: Reconciliation of Positions and Flows | No |
| 11.11 Table 2.1 - Gross External Foreign Currency and Foreign-Currency-Linked Debt Position | No |
| 11.12 Table 3.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Short-Term Remaining Maturity - by Sector | No |
| 11.13 Table 3.2 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector and Instrument | No |
| 12.0 Metadata Update | |
| 12.1 Metadata last updated | 12/14/2016 |