Social Insurance

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Ceisteanna (189)

Eoghan Murphy

Ceist:

217 Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount generated from PRSI contributions in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; and the corresponding percentage of total revenue generating in those years. [24768/11]

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Minister for Social Protection (Deputy Joan Burton)

The total value of PRSI contributions paid into my Department's Social Insurance Fund in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 is set out in the following table:

PRSI Receipts

Year	2010	2009	2008	2007
	€million	€million	€million	€million
TOTAL	6,708	7,165	7,984	7,722

PRSI contributions on average accounted for 99% of revenue generated by the Department in the four years 2007 to 2010. The Social Insurance Fund also received additional income by way of a return on the Social Insurance Investment Accounts and rental income amounting to €407 million and €176,000 respectively in this period. The figures contained in the table are net of the Health Contribution and the National Training Levy which were collected up to last year as part of PRSI contributions and paid over to the Health Service Executive and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

The above figures do not include revenue generated by the Exchequer through general taxation and applied to social welfare purposes, such as funding means tested social assistance payments or universal entitlements such as Child Benefit.