Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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160. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments made to the European Union in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018 and estimated for 2019; the receipts received or estimated to be received for the same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53404/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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EU budget payments and public sector receipt data are published annually on the Department of Finance’s website in the Budget Statistics publication. The public sector receipt measure captures funds under 'shared management' between national and EU authorities. In addition, the EU also pays some additional receipts directly to private beneficiaries under 'centralised direct management', most notably under the EU research funding programme.

Ireland's receipts from and contributions to the EU budget for the years 2016 and 2017 are set out in the table below:

* - Direct Management - funds which are awarded and spent directly by the Commission. These are primarily research receipts.

To date, EU budget contributions for 2018 amount to just under €2,500 million. As published in Budget 2019, EU budget contributions are forecasted to be c. €2,575m in 2019. Receipts data for 2018 and 2019 will not be available until late 2019 and late 2020 respectively.