Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

It was €40 billion, give or take, and by the end of 2013 it had gone up to €200 billion. Then it was fairly level from 2013 until 2018 and then it started to drift up. Obviously with Covid there was additional borrowing.