Written answers

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Department of Finance

Exchequer Deficit

Photo of Carol NolanCarol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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81. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the annual cost of interest payments on the State’s national debt for each year during the period 2000 to date; the total interest payments made during that period, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31052/25]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The NTMA have informed me that the annual net interest paid on Ireland’s National Debt for each of the years 2000 to 2024 is as included in the table below:

€m National Debt Interest
2024 2,991
2023 3,168
2022 3,701
2021 3,594
2020 4,515
2019 5,048
2018 5,798
2017 6,092
2016 6,741
2015 6,979
2014 7,470
2013 7,324
2012 5,679
2011 4,548
2010 3,492
2009 2,535
2008 1,544
2007 1,619
2006 1,860
2005 1,721
2004 1,677
2003 1,764
2002 1,660
2001 1,875
2000 2,069

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