Currency Circulation

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 May 2013

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Questions (195)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of coins of each denomination that have been minted in each year here since the introduction of the euro. [25659/13]

Written answers

Minister for Finance

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following spreadsheet. Figures for 2002 and 2003 are not available.

	1c	2c	5c	10c	20c	50c	€1	€2	Total
2002*	Breakdown not available								531 million*
2003*	Breakdown not available								583 million*
2004	200,977,926	158,521,744	69,150,616	62,284,339	54,744,099	9,165,931	10,274,402	5,109,795	570,228,852
2005	85,611,984	66,024,318	71,005,914	24,538,169	33,477,344	20,056,701	6,060,154	3,488,454	310,263,038
2006	74,735,247	41,496,614	70,194,320	26,349,719	26,971,656	10,740,683	5,122,015	15,199,516	270,809,770
2007	90,298,031	25,551,248	90,645,394	57,084,373	15,603,909	5,001,002	4,957,645	4,654,333	293,795,935
2008	63,695,948	58,723,719	50,658,391	55,148,032	36,242,534	5,770,534	2,559,757	19,838,333	292,637,248
2009	20,033,208	27,204,971	51,212,102	37,648,213	35,488,824	7,444,440	7,069,511	11,971	186,113,240
2010	66,473,053	25,564,859	1,048,581	1,179,239	1,079,119	1,200,450	1,118,816	2,473,390	100,137,507
2011	36,123,593	38,630,103	1,043,942	973,392	1,191,869	1,111,953	1,114,970	2,443,900	82,633,722
2012	75,737,283	1,134,163	1,083,330	890,691	1,027,527	1,043,448	1,071,945	1,110,006	83,098,393

* From the Central Bank Annual Reports, available at: http://www.centralbank.ie/publications/Pages/corporate-publications.aspx.