Irish banks' reliance on emergency funding slipped slightly in October with outstanding loans of €119 billion.
This was down from €120 billion a month earlier, new Central Bank figures show.
The Central Bank said that Irish lenders had €78.2 billion in outstanding loans from the European Central Bank by October 26, down from €79.1 billion in September.
But emergency loans from the Central Bank inched up to €40.7 billion from €40.6 billion a month before.
Irish banks are heavily dependent on loans from the ECB and the Central Bank to run their day-to-day operations. Under the EU/IMF bailout programme they must shrink their balance sheets to ease that exposure, which peaked at €187 billion in February of last year.
