Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 July 2020
232. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance the net contributions Ireland will have to make to the EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework in each year until 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18420/20]
View answerAs the Deputy will be aware, Ireland became a net contributor to the EU Budget in 2014, and since then, this position has grown further. However, at this point my Department does not have information regarding Ireland’s actual net contribution to the Post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) in each year until 2024.
Irish contributions to the EU budget are expected to rise over the coming MFF period from approximately €3 billion in 2021, to over €4 billion in 2027, an average of €3.5 billion. We estimate that our receipts from the Post-2020 MFF will be in the region of approximately €2 billion each year. Data on EU Budget receipts are published annually in my Department’s Budgetary Statistics each Autumn for the previous year – 2021 receipt data will be published in Autumn 2022.
