Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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118. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Irish receipts or projected receipts from the EU Multiannual Financial Framework in the years 2019 to 2027, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64049/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department collects data on Ireland’s EU Budget receipts, from relevant Government Departments, for the previous year on an annual basis for publication in the EU Transactions Reports and up until the year 2021 in the Department of Finance Budgetary Statistics. This operational data may be subject to revision and any updates which may be required are reflected in subsequent publication releases.

This table sets out Ireland’s EU budget receipts as reported by relevant Government Departments in this process, from 2019-2023, the latest year for which data is available. My Department is currently collecting the data on receipts for 2024, and this information will be published in the coming months. These figures include, but are not limited to, such programmes as the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, the European Fund for Regional Development, and Erasmus+. They do not include funds directly managed by the European Commission; as such the figures do not provide the full picture of Ireland’s receipts from the EU budget.

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Table 1: Ireland’s EU budget receipts, 2019-2023

The European Commission also publishes data on Member States’ transactions with the EU, of which the most recently available data is 2024. These figures can differ from those collected by Government Departments, reflecting differences in accounting practices and time periods.

In relation to future years, my Department does not forecast the precise levels of EU budget receipts Ireland is expected to draw down in a given future year. These figures are contingent on a number of factors, such as the status and speed of project implementation, and when individual Departments submit payment requests to the European Commission.

Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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119. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Irish contribution or projected contribution to the EU Multiannual Financial Framework in the years 2019 to 2027, by year; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64050/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The annual contribution of Ireland to the EU Budget from 2019 to 2024 is outlined in Table 1 below:

Table 1: EU Budget payments 2019-2024

With regard to projected contributions, my Department’s most recent forecast was prepared for Budget 2026, for the remaining years of the current Multiannual Financial Framework period, which ends in 2027. My officials will continue to work on revising these forecasts as the MFF period progresses. The projected contributions for the remaining three years are as follows:

Table 2: EU Budget payment forecast 2025-2027

Based on my Department’s forecasts, Ireland’s contributions to the EU budget will continue to grow over the remainder of the MFF period. This is directly linked to several factors, including in particular the overall level of payments in the EU budget, which Member States must finance, and Ireland’s economic performance, which drives Ireland’s share of the overall budget. A significant proportion of how Member States finance the EU budget is according to relative Gross National Income (GNI).