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Is our tax money being spent well? 

The Irish state collected 106 billion euro in taxes last year and a half-a-billion euro earned in...

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09.00 13 May 2026


Is our tax money being spent well? 


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09.00 13 May 2026


The Irish state collected 106 billion euro in taxes last year and a half-a-billion euro earned in fuel taxes that had yet to be spent. Is our tax money being well spent? 

Claire asked Albert Dolan, Fianna Fail TD for Galway East and Dan O'Brien, Chief Economist with the Institute of International and European affairs and columnist with The Currency.


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