Das zugrunde liegende Staatsdefizit weitet sich ohne Apple-Anreize auf 4,2 Milliarden Euro aus

However, gross voted expenditure, the biggest source of spending, surged 7.7 per cent to €87.1 billion. Total expenditure came to €100.3 billion for the first 10 months.

The overreliance of successive governments on unsustainably high corporation taxes from multinationals based in Ireland was underscored in a Department of Finance report published on Tuesday.

It said that a fall-off in such receipts could lead to a decline in exchequer revenue over the next four decades, relative to the size of the economy.

The days of surpluses are over I guess. But the demands for vastly increased spending and borrowing billions more from Wall Street will continue.

Surely there is spending of the Apple money that was voted because we had it. Feels like it would be more prudent to strip both out? Unless I’m missing something

It’s not a ‘boost’, it’s legally applied taxation policy lmfao

So, we’re totally screwed?

This is not a good sign for anyone, the political parties haven’t had to worry about economic growth, it was baked in to the system. The idea of cuts is going to become more appealing to a wide range of people. What gets cut and what people shout about will become interesting.

But… we have apples corporation tax, and should have claimed it anyway but have it as a saving. It’s like making a story about having a deficit if we didn’t collect NPT – we do… the bigger problem is the complete disconnect between increasing income tax returns and benefits for taxpayers.

It’s time to start spending time on investments, we a sole service economy, we have all our eggs in one basket and it relies on the rest of the world being in a good way economically.

Ireland needs to grow it manufacturing sectors not just in high cost low volume items. These investment should pay back over time.

We have direct access to some of the strongest markets in the world with already strong relationships with not mention emerging markets that might not want to work with other larger nations due historical baggage.

I feel like in the last few years the government and decision makers have lost a huge amount of there skills and become middle class complacence, diving deep in to middle class crab bucket, not to strive for something more not to upset others.

Amazing contrast between the vibe in the comments and those on the housing crisis threads. Are they a completely different bunch of commenters?