Il governo generale registra un surplus di € 23,2 miliardi (4,3% del PIL) nel 2024
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di NanorH
Il governo generale registra un surplus di € 23,2 miliardi (4,3% del PIL) nel 2024
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di NanorH
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**Key Findings**
* The general government balance shows a surplus of €23.2 billion, or 4.3% of GDP in 2024, almost treble the surplus of €7.9 billion recorded in 2023.
* Total government revenue increased to €148.3 billion, €24.5 billion higher than 2023.
* Total government expenditure also increased to €125.1 billion, a €9.2 billion increase on the year before.
* Gross general government debt fell to €218.2 billion at the end of 2024.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-gfsa/governmentfinancestatistics2024april2025/keyfindings/
great, i am sure that the surplus will be used to either fund a lot of housing, reconfigure the HSE, or even better.. help insulate Irish business from the dependance on the US and the current trade war.
Who am i kidding.. it wont
Ah sweet, more hoarding for a “rainy day” while ignoring the literal holes in our roof rn
Me thinks the good times maybe coming to an end.
And yet we have more homeless than ever. Horrible.
Tax cuts please.
Genuinely, why can’t this surplus be used on key infrastructure work? What’s the reason we don’t have loads of houses?
The money hoarding by successive governments only highlights how completely precarious Ireland’s economy is, we are completely dependent on multinationals for employment, if you have a good job it’s either because you work for a multinational like Facebook, Amazon, Pfizer, Intel, Microsoft or you work for the state, if the Orange one was in any way successful in forcing these companies to be tax domiciled in the USA we would be absolutely snookered and the arse would fall out of the vulture economy we’ve built, you can’t build an economy out of a tax strategy and expect it to last forever, it’s a very risky way to go about development.
Does this include the Apple escrow money?
Can all county councils get a bike shed now then?
And all wasted or to be wasted. What have we to show for it? Nothing.
Cut tax
So where are all the surpluses and how much is in that account, or is the figure used against debt?
Let’s spend it on ipas
Love hearing about surpluses while we’re in the middle of a housing crisis, new record levels of homelessness, have no metro, overcrowded hospitals, overcapacity prisons, and below average police to people ratio. Really shows you get what you vote for.
“Are we going to spend this money building social housing, and paying teachers, nurses and doctors?’
“…….no”
They should use that on a retrofitting programme or building a metro but instead they’ll do nothing and it will never be mentioned again
Who’s creating these graphics, I love them.
Ohhh no we have to be careful not to overspend!!
My arse
Build a fucking metro for the love of god
Some juicy bonuses and retirement raises incoming for TDs. A lucky bunch!!!
Does it really mean anything when the average person’s quality of life is shit?
*Sigh* **A surplus is a Bad. Thing. It [takes money out of the Private + Foreign sectors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances).**
Move on from century-out-of-date thinking about how economies work, based on the gold standard.