So far, the fiscal costs, in terms of stimulus package deployed to moderate the adverse socioeconomic consequences on the households and businesses, is estimated at over ¢ billion. If you add the financial sector costs and the energy sector costs raises the estimate of the financial burden from these three sources alone to ¢ billion.
As at half year it was estimated that government paid ¢ billion in excess capacity payments in the energy sector. This has  40 | P a g e  pushed the debt/GDP ratio above the threshold for the Market Access Countries. 44.