Public Expenditure Statistics

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Questions (218)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

218. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form public spending both as a percentage of gross domestic product and in nominal terms by year from 1992 to 2011. [41519/12]

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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Details of Government expenditure in nominal terms and expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product are detailed in the table.

The figures for Total Government Expenditure listed are consistent with Table 1 from the Budgetary and Economic Statistics publication, updated to reflect more recently available data. The figures include central fund services, gross voted current expenditure and current expenditure from the social insurance fund and the national training fund as well as voted capital spending plus non-voted capital issues.

The Deputy might be interested to know that my Department hosts a databank website which contains a comprehensive set of data on public expenditure in Ireland. The material can be accessed through the following web address; http://databank.per.gov.ie/. Similarly, the Central Statistics Office holds a wide variety of statistical data on their website http://www.cso.ie/en/

Year	GDP (€m)	Total Government Expenditure	Expenditure as % of GDP
1992	€40,489	€16,640	41.10%
1993	€43,605	€18,144	41.61%
1994	€46,864	€19,364	41.32%
1995	€53,787	€20,584	38.27%
1996	€58,894	€22,560	38.31%
1997	€68,154	€23,699	34.77%
1998	€78,685	€25,355	32.22%
1999	€90,683	€28,092	30.98%
2000	€105,775	€31,014	29.32%
2001	€117,643	€36,017	30.62%
2002	€130,877	€39,975	30.54%
2003	€140,827	€43,045	30.57%
2004	€150,194	€45,696	30.42%
2005	€163,037	€50,746	31.13%
2006	€177,729	€56,143	31.59%
2007	€188,729	€62,929	33.34%
2008	€178,882	€68,721	38.42%
2009	€161,275	€75,869	47.04%
2010	€156,487	€68,984	44.08%
2011	€158,993	€75,894	47.73%