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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Expenditure Statistics

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form public spending both as a percentage of gross domestic product and in nominal terms by year from 1992 to 2011. [41519/12]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Details of Government expenditure in nominal terms and expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product are detailed in the table.

The figures for Total Government Expenditure listed are consistent with Table 1 from the Budgetary and Economic Statistics publication, updated to reflect more recently available data. The figures include central fund services, gross voted current expenditure and current expenditure from the social insurance fund and the national training fund as well as voted capital spending plus non-voted capital issues.

The Deputy might be interested to know that my Department hosts a databank website which contains a comprehensive set of data on public expenditure in Ireland. The material can be accessed through the following web address; http://databank.per.gov.ie/. Similarly, the Central Statistics Office holds a wide variety of statistical data on their website http://www.cso.ie/en/

Year
GDP (€m)Total Government ExpenditureExpenditure as % of GDP
1992
€40,489
€16,640
41.10%
1993
€43,605
€18,144
41.61%
1994
€46,864
€19,364
41.32%
1995
€53,787
€20,584
38.27%
1996
€58,894
€22,560
38.31%
1997
€68,154
€23,699
34.77%
1998
€78,685
€25,355
32.22%
1999
€90,683
€28,092
30.98%
2000
€105,775
€31,014
29.32%
2001
€117,643
€36,017
30.62%
2002
€130,877
€39,975
30.54%
2003
€140,827
€43,045
30.57%
2004
€150,194
€45,696
30.42%
2005
€163,037
€50,746
31.13%
2006
€177,729
€56,143
31.59%
2007
€188,729
€62,929
33.34%
2008
€178,882
€68,721
38.42%
2009
€161,275
€75,869
47.04%
2010
€156,487
€68,984
44.08%
2011
€158,993
€75,894
47.73%

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