Ireland recorded a surplus of €23 billion last year, according to provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
This includes more than €13 billion in Apple tax money that was the feature of a dispute between the US tech giant, Ireland and the European Commission.
The provisional CSO figures indicate a significant increase on the surpluses recorded in both 2023 and 2022 (€8.3 billion and €8.6 billion respectively).
They also indicate the government debt ratio decreased to 40.9 per cent of GDP at the end of 2024, compared to 52.6 per cent three years ago.
The figure will be finalised when the Government accounts are published on April 22nd.
Ireland is in the process of recovering more than €13 billion, plus interest, in corporation tax from the US tech giant after the European Commission successfully argued that Apple had been given undue tax benefits that were illegal under EU state aid rules.
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