EMU and the Euro: Ireland's National Changeover Plan  

Finally, the third edition of EMU and the Euro: Ireland's National Changeover Plan was published in November 1998. It set out the arrangements being made by the public sector (including Government Departments and Offices, local authorities, health boards and State-sponsored bodies; the Department of Finance; the Central Bank of Ireland; the National Treasury Management Agency; the Revenue Commissioners; the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs; the Department of Agriculture and Food; the Department of Education and Science; the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the national code of practice on dual display; and the Central Statistics Office) as well as by private sector bodies, (including banks and building societies, the Irish Stock Exchange, the Insurance Sector and IBEC) to facilitate the use of the euro. An Appendix to the Plan summarised the work being done, not just in the public sector but also across the private sector, with a view to ensuring that the changeover to the euro will be carried out in a smooth and orderly way; it also lists contact points from which more information can be obtained. Other Appendixes include a list of euro websites, the membership and secretariat of the Euro Changeover Board of Ireland, and the standard of good practice on bank charges for conversion to euro and on dual display of amounts published by the Irish Bankers' Federation and the Irish Mortgage and Savings Association. The designs for euro notes, and the designs for the common face of euro coins as well as for the national faces where these are available, are shown at the end of the plan.