Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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190. To ask the Minister for Finance the historic contributions to the EU budget in monetary value for each of the years 2006 to 2015 in tabular form. [9596/16]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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191. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected annual contribution to the EU budget in monetary value for each of the years 2016 to 2021 in tabular form. [9595/16]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together.

EU Budget payments are published annually by the Department of Finance in the Budget Statistics bulletin.

Member State contributions to the EU Budget are based upon a formula which includes Traditional Own Resources (customs duties), a VAT-based payment and a residual balancing component paid in accordance with each Member State's share of EU Gross National Income (GNI). Ireland's contributions for 2006 to 2015 are set out in Table 1.

For 2016-2021, the estimates set out in table 2 must be regarded as highly qualified as they are  subject to on-going change arising from revisions to the underlying economic data, the annual EU budget agreements and other legislative developments at EU level. In addition, as the current Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) expires in 2020, the estimate for 2021 is extrapolated from our contribution over the previous years and will of course be subject to change when a new MFF is agreed on the basis of unanimity by all member States.

Table 1

Table 2