Written answers
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Department of Finance
National Debt
4:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance the full extent of the national debt as recorded in the 12 months to date; the corresponding periods over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2970/09]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The National Debt totalled €50,398 million at the end of 2008. The figures for the years 2003-2007 are outlined in the following table.
| Year ending December | National Debt Total |
| €m | |
| 2003 | 37,611 |
| 2004 | 37,846 |
| 2005 | 38,182 |
| 2006 | 35,917 |
| 2007 | 37,559 |
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