A review of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide has found no need for the State to inject additional money into the two institutions.
The Central Bank said the independent review had come in in line with the previous assessments, which were carried out by the Central Bank last September.
In September, the Central Bank estimated that Anglo Irish would need an additional €6.4bn to cope with losses from bad loans, while Irish Nationwide would need another €2.7bn.
This brought the total State capital provided since 2009 to €29.3bn and €5.4bn, respectively.
The Central Bank said today that BlackRock Solutions, which carried out reviews of the other Irish banks earlier this year, had looked at Irish Nationwide's mortgage, commercial property and other lending books.
This was because no independent review of INBS had been carried out for more than a year. BlackRock found that the previous estimates were 'robust'.
As the Anglo estimates were more recent, BlackRock carried out a review of the approach and the results and concluded the previous results were 'reasonable'.
Subordinated bondholders
Meanwhile, Bank of Ireland, Irish Life & Permanent and EBS have announced plans to make subordinated bondholders share the burden of recapitalising the banks.
The Minister for Finance said the moves were in line with Government policy to make junior debt holders contribute to the costs of the banking crisis.
Michael Noonan warned that the Government would take further steps if the offers being made by the banks did not deliver the expected capital gains.
Bank of Ireland said it would launch a plan shortly which would cover about €2.6bn of its subordinated debt.
Earlier, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Finance Pearse Doherty has called on the Government to impose burden sharing on senior bond holders in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide.
Pearse Doherty has said that 'while some people will welcome that no further capital will be required by Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide, the fact remains that €34.7bn of public money has been committed to these zombie banks.'
