The interest goes from the exchequer to the IBRC and from the IBRC to the Central Bank of Ireland.
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The Irish government provided guarantees to the Central Bank of Ireland that these loans to the state-owned IBRC would be repaid.
The Central Bank of Ireland will sell the bonds but only where such a sale is not disruptive to financial stability.
At first, the bonds will belong to the Central Bank of Ireland.
Crucially, however, the Central Bank of Ireland has agreed to dispose of the bonds over time by selling them to the private sector.
Anyway, for one reason or another, it was decided to scrap the IBRC altogether and provide replacement bonds to the Central Bank of Ireland.
Well the purpose of the promissory notes is for IBRC to pay back the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) loaned to it by the Central Bank of Ireland.
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The other option would be for NAMA to also acquire the Exceptional Liquidity Assistance (ELA) MLRA and the pledged collateral from the Central Bank of Ireland but this has not yet been announced or stated in any of the documentation.
As you know and have written on extensively, the ELA debt for IBRC was administered in 3 contractual arrangements between IBRC and Central Bank of Ireland, the Master Loan Repurchase Agreement (MLRA), Special Master Loan Repurchase Agreement (SMRA) and the Facility Deed (FD).
However, if a euro exit was to occur at some point in the next few years, there would be nothing preventing the Central Bank of Ireland from cancelling the new bonds or indicating it would roll them over forever and hand back all interest payments.
The Republic of Ireland's central bank governor, Patrick Honohan, had been negotiating the plan with the ECB late on Wednesday, when details leaked to the press.
Ireland's central bank welcomed the commitment of euro-zone leaders to help the country reduce its bank-rescue costs, but warned the initiatives they have taken so far are failing to tackle Europe's wider debt crisis.
Then, on Nov. 18, at their monthly meeting on the 36th floor of the ECB headquarters, Europe's central bankers delivered an ultimatum to their Irish counterpart, Patrick Honohan: The ECB would disallow use of the Irish central bank's emergency loan program unless Ireland took the bailout.
The last time Mark and I had visited Ireland was on the eve of the adoption of the new European Central Bank and the common currency, the Euro.
The European Central Bank and the EFSF, the fund set up to prevent exactly this sort of disaster in Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
From January, rates in Ireland will be set from Frankfurt, by the European Central Bank, with the needs of France and Germany mainly in mind.
Germany is also the home to the European Central Bank and the biggest national creditor to indebted nations within the eurozone such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland all of which would make Germany's exit from the eurozone logistically difficult.
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