David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I tabled a parliamentary question on this issue last week and received a reply from the Minister for Finance, which set out the State's total gross expenditure as a percentage of GDP over the course of the next five years, comparing that to this year and over the next five years. In 2016, the total gross expenditure as a percentage of GDP was 24.1%. That will shrink to 22% by 2021 because of the Government's budgetary plans. Is it not a fact that the Government is shrinking the State?

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