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    1. **Key Findings**

      * The General Government Balance (GGB) shows a surplus of €22.6 billion in 2024, or 4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), almost treble the surplus of €7.2 billion recorded in 2023.

      * Total government revenue increased to €148.6 billion in 2024, €24.8 billion higher than 2023. More than half of this increase was due to a one-off capital receipt arising from a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

      * Total government expenditure also rose to €126.0 billion in 2024, a €9.4 billion increase on 2023.

      * Gross General Government Debt (GGD) fell to €215.4 billion at the end of 2024, a decrease of €3.7 billion since the end of 2023.

      https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-gfsa/governmentfinancestatistics2024october2025/keyfindings/

    2. NoFewSatan on

      Ah, government, if you’re off to the bar, I’ll have *two* pints!

    3. Life-Leadership-4108 on

      What does the government do with these surpluses? We’re getting them every year but never see any benefits

    4. qwerty_1965 on

      Right so it’s half due to the Apple windfall. It feels like that amount should be kept off the books for the sake of honesty.

    5. whooo_me on

      So about 13bn of this was from the Apple case, and is a once off? Still, looks slightly up from last year even without that.

    6. slevinonion on

      We’ve wasted a boom! I haven’t a pot to piss in and the government are like Di Caprio in wolf of wall street. Cunts!

    7. Retailpegger on

      Cool, can we build some FREAKING HOUSES ? And improve transport OUT from Dublin please ?

    8. Spare-Stomach8475 on

      Few more years of this and we won’t need a border poll I’m happy to welcome an invasion up north with open arms.

      You guys get DLA cars or what though????

    9. Seeing ya’ll cry about this is hillarious. Look at the UK’s that’s something to cry about.

      Of course the governmetn doesnt cut you a check. But your services arent getting cut left, right, and center. Your infrastrucuture projects are continuing and having more added on.

      You people that are cying, are you actually serious or is this just the standard Reddit doomsayers.

    10. servantbyname on

      20 years until the greatest run on government pensions the state has ever faced. Better keep building that war chest or there will be a silver haired revolution

    11. Trabolgan on

      It’s apple windfall + companies exporting to America before Trump’s tariffs kicked in. It’s not repeatable revenue that the State can predict.

      Which is why there were no goodies in this year’s budget. We have no idea what the State will rake in in 2026.

    12. Otherwise-Link-396 on

      Did anyone else notice net debt is not quoted, just gross? Good from a fiscal perspective (net debt is 27.5% not 38.3%)

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