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‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Social Welfare Expenditure. Social welfare spending as a share of State expenditure
Summary
The Minister gave the requested figures and noted that only year-ended March 1974 figures were available for 1973, as calendar-year accounting began in 1975.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the expenditure on social welfare in 1983 as a percentage of State spending in that year; and if he will also give corresponding figures for 1973.
Comment on this
Total social welfare expenditure as a percentage of total State spending for the years in question was as follows:
In the case of 1973-74 figures are available for the year ended 31 March 1974 only. Accounting on a calendar year basis did not come into operation until the beginning of 1975.