Written answers
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Expenditure Statistics
Pearse 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]
Brendan 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 Expenditure | Expenditure as % of GDP |
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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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