The Department of Finance set out in Table A8 the 2016 Budget documentation, the estimated amount fiscal space for the period 2017 to 2021 according the EU fiscal rules. On Budget day, the Department estimated gross fiscal space for the period 2017-2021 (including the technical assumption of indexing the income tax system) at €11.070 billion.
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