Credit to Irish households has continued to fall on both an annual and quarterly basis. The Central Bank says credit to households here was at €97.8 billion at the end of March.
This is a quarterly decline of 1.2% and an annual decrease of 3.6%.
The total amount of loans outstanding for house purchases was at €121.9 billion, down from €122.6 billion on the same period last year.
While the total deposits held in resident credit institutions by Irish households were €85.6 billion - a drop of 1.5%.
The annual rate of change in loans for house purchases of -3.1% was the 17th consecutive quarterly decline.
Floating rate mortgages - including standard variable rate, tracker rate and those with a fixed rate up to one year - accounted for 94% of the outstanding amount of loans for house purchases, while fixed rate mortgages accounted for 6%.
