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No ECB decision yet on Noonan’s promissory notes proposal

The bank has ‘nothing to add’ on Noonan’s plan after today’s governing council meeting.

Image: AP Photo/Michael Probst

NEGOTIATIONS ON a potential agreement to change the terms of a €3bn Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory note have concluded for today.

IBRC is the organisation formed following the merger of Anglo Irish Bank with the Irish Nationwide Business Society.

A spokesperson for the ECB said that the organisation has “nothing to add” this evening in respect of Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s comments last night.

Noonan had said that negotiations were underway with EU authorities including the ECB “on the basis that the €3.06 billion cash installment due from the Minister to IBRC on 31 March 2012 under the terms of the IBRC promissory note could be settled by the delivery of a long-term Irish government bond”.

The minister said that the details of such an arrangement had yet to be worked out.

The proceedings of today’s meeting of the ECB’s governing council have not been made public, but Irish Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan was expected to petition for a formal approval on Noonan’s proposals during the meeting.

TheJournal.ie understands that no decision has been made on the issue, but that the discussions have concluded for today.

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Comments (13 Comments)

  • This horse could be at the wrong race track !!!

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  • its not our debt in the first place,
    so noonan,
    get stuffed

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  • @Gay, We did cover the return of recession – the article can be found here: http://jrnl.ie/392430

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  • When he announced it to the Dáil last night, this looked like a done deal. The word out there in more unofficial sources (yeah…Twitter) is that this “negotiations are continuing” line is really a big thumbs down from the ECB.
    Would Noonan have been that crazy to go public with a deal that hadn’t been anywhere near agreement?

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  • Behind closed doors, those in government are shaking in their boots!! I wonder how long the ‘front’ will last? Joanie and Leo are ready to hang party members for a headline. All is not well in government buildings. Watch this space….

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    • If there is to be a shake-up to the cabinet it’d likely to this:

      Change Noonan to Minister for Tourism and make Leo a backbencher. Put Eoghan Murphy in Finance as he’s popular amongst the public for what he says on finance and this gives government a much needed boost.

      Joan has tried to cut disability so Kenny wants to get her out as he revoked this but Gilmore doesn’t want to as he risks Labour loosing a position on the cabinet and hence his party would loose influence so don’t expect anything to happen to Joan, it’s a gamble Gilmore won’t take.

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  • From the discussion last night on #vinb, it doesn’t sound like a great thing to make this debt wholly sovereign AT ALL. In fact, it is giving a higher level of guarantee altogether. Seems a bit like offering a bank a second house as collateral for extending the mortgage.
    This government have a desperately bad approach to negotiations. Surely you are *meant* to start with something that you want that may be just beyond achievable and work from their. They didn’t even attempt to demand a write-down.
    Look forward to this government falling – hope it does so soon, as it’s doing an awful lot of irreparable damage, imo.

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    • Agreed. Smoke and liars to get this ‘treaty’ through. Well now I can tell my kids that it’s now their responsibility to pay off gambling debt that belongs to corrupt bankers who leant money to corrupt developers who paid bribes to corrupt councillors who were influenced by corrupt lobbyists employed by corrupt politicians who had friends in big banks who lent money to corrupt developers. Ah the tales we’ll tell. >:[

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  • When he announced it to the Dáil last night, this looked like a done deal. The word out there in more unofficial sources (yeah…Twitter) is that this “negotiations are continuing” line is really a big thumbs down from the ECB.

    Would Noonan have been that crazy to go public with a deal that hadn’t been anywhere near agreement?

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  • Sorry, duplicate post above.

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