Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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179. To ask the Minister for Finance the primary Exchequer surplus for 2018. [36323/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Summer Economic Statement published earlier this month contains the most recent fiscal forecasts and contains a projected Exchequer deficit of €2.2 billion for next year. This projection incorporates an unchanged assumption from April’s SPU of debt service interest of €6.3 billion. Accordingly, this provides a projected primary Exchequer surplus of €4.1 billion in 2018.