Written answers

Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Insurance Fund

11:00 am

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount in the social insurance fund; the amount by which the fund has increased each year since 2000; the amount paid out of the fund each year during the same period; the locations such money was expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11784/07]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the surplus amount in the social insurance fund in each of the years since 2000 and the amount paid out of the fund in each of those years are as follows:

YearCumulative SurplusSIF Payments
â'¬ 000â'¬ 000
2000854,9203,138,668
20011,486,1433,675,678
20021,273,4634,375,924
20031,528,7984,833,197
20041,905,8755,272,543
20052,400,2845,664,609
2006 Provisional3,070,4006,327,517

Full details of how the social insurance fund monies have been applied are contained in the annual accounts of the fund. My Department is arranging to send copies of the accounts for the years 2000 to 2005 to the Deputy; the accounts for 2006 have not yet been completed.

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