Expenditure Reviews

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 16 January 2013

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Ceisteanna (361, 362, 363, 380)

Pearse Doherty

Ceist:

361. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail expenditure on health care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012 [1890/13]

Pearse Doherty

Ceist:

362. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail State expenditure on education care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1891/13]

Pearse Doherty

Ceist:

363. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail Government expenditure on social protection care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1892/13]

Pearse Doherty

Ceist:

380. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he wil detail total Government expenditure as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1893/13]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Deputy Brendan Howlin)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 361, 362, 363 and 380 together.

Details of Government expenditure, Health expenditure, Social Protection expenditure and Education expenditure in nominal terms and expressed as a percentage of tax revenue and on a per capita basis from 1992 to 2012 are detailed in the table below.

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 Department of Finance hosts a comparable website with details of Exchequer Tax receipts and can be accessed at http://databank.finance.gov.ie/. In addition, the Central Statistics Office holds a wide variety of statistical data on their website http://www.cso.ie/en/

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Total Government Expenditure 1, €m	16,640	18,144	19,364	20,584	22,560	23,699	25,355	28,092	31,014	36,017	39,975	43,045	45,696	50,746	56,143	62,929	68,721	75,869	68,984	75,894	67,029
Non voted 2, €m	3,613	3,966	3,990	3,883	4,111	4,836	4,819	5,202	5,083	4,709	4,157	4,663	4,938	5,860	6,360	6,305	6,423	12,821	8,549	18,512	11,674
Voted 3, €m	13,027	14,178	15,374	16,701	18,449	18,863	20,536	22,890	25,931	31,308	35,818	38,382	40,758	44,886	49,783	56,624	62,298	63,048	60,435	57,382	55,355
of which
Social Protection 4 , €m	4,453	4,708	4,849	5,600	5,656	5,729	6,017	6,252	6,680	7,794	9,463	10,440	11,249	12,123	13,521	15,451	17,753	20,443	20,807	20,958	20,547
Health and Children 4 , €m	2,293	2,609	2,953	3,128	3,137	3,637	4,125	4,831	5,656	7,077	8,353	9,303	10,069	11,821	13,012	14,980	16,039	15,973	15,135	14,611	14,470
Education 4 , €m	2,026	2,278	2,547	2,631	2,800	3,163	3,460	3,724	4,233	4,791	5,390	5,865	6,597	7,218	7,897	8,705	9,295	9,356	9,741	9,193	9,034
Population 4	3,525,719	3,525,719	3,525,719	3,525,719	3,626,087	3,626,087	3,626,087	3,626,087	3,626,087	3,626,087	3,917,203	3,917,203	3,917,203	3,917,203	4,239,848	4,239,848	4,239,848	4,239,848	4,239,848	4,588,252	4,588,252
Social Protection Per Capita, €,000	1,263	1,335	1,375	1,588	1,560	1,580	1,659	1,724	1,842	2,150	2,416	2,665	2,872	3,095	3,189	3,644	4,187	4,822	4,907	4,568	4,478
Health & Children Per Capita, €,000	650	740	838	887	865	1,003	1,138	1,332	1,560	1,952	2,133	2,375	2,571	3,018	3,069	3,533	3,783	3,767	3,570	3,185	3,154
Education Per Capita, €,000	575	646	722	746	772	872	954	1,027	1,167	1,321	1,376	1,497	1,684	1,843	1,863	2,053	2,192	2,207	2,297	2,004	1,969
Tax 6, €m	11,314	12,322	13,758	14,392	15,897	18,124	20,480	23,565	27,072	27,925	29,294	32,103	35,581	39,254	45,539	47,249	40,777	33,043	31,753	34,027	36,646
Total Expenditure as a percentage of Tax	147%	147%	141%	143%	142%	131%	124%	119%	115%	129%	136%	134%	128%	129%	123%	133%	169%	230%	217%	223%	183%
Social Protection as a percentage of Tax	39%	38%	35%	39%	36%	32%	29%	27%	25%	28%	32%	33%	32%	31%	30%	33%	44%	62%	66%	62%	56%
Health & Children as a percentage of Tax	20%	21%	21%	22%	20%	20%	20%	21%	21%	25%	29%	29%	28%	30%	29%	32%	39%	48%	48%	43%	39%
Education as a percentage of Tax	18%	18%	19%	18%	18%	17%	17%	16%	16%	17%	18%	18%	19%	18%	17%	18%	23%	28%	31%	27%	25%

1. 'Total Government Expenditure' is the sum of 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.

2. Non-Voted expenditure is expenditure paid directly from the Central Fund, predominantly for debt servicing costs and payments to the EU budget.

3. Gross voted expenditure is the current and capital expenditure of Government Departments, including both the expenditure financed through the Exchequer and that financed by appropriations-in-aid. It includes expenditure from the Social Insurance Fund and the National Training Fund. These figures are consistent with Table 1 from the Budgetary and Economic Statistics publication. Note that the figure for 2012 is taken from the end-December Exchequer Returns.

4. The figures for Social Protection, Health and Education are the Gross expenditure figures for each of the years 1992 - 2012. Social Protection includes payments made from the Social Insurance Fund. Education includes payments made from the National Training Fund and for consistency Health includes figures for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

All the above data is available from the department of Public Expenditure & Reform's databank website http://databank.per.gov.ie/.

5. The population statistics are available from the CSO website at www.CSO.ie

6. These tax figures are available from the Department of Finance's databank website and include Excise Duty, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Capital Acquisitions Tax (from 1999), Stamps, Income Tax, Value Added Tax, Motor Vehicle Duties (to 1997) and Levies. Note that the figure for 2012 is taken from the end-December Exchequer Returns.