{"id":331411,"date":"2026-03-06T04:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:36:25","slug":"our-national-debt-now-stands-at-e232bn-why-arent-we-paying-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331411\/","title":{"rendered":"Our national debt now stands at \u20ac232bn. Why aren&#8217;t we paying it off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">With debt-servicing costs set to rise, perhaps now is the time to take action\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In a volatile world, how much national debt is sustainable?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8118f278-4886-4af6-ab8b-a61654cab93b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">In a volatile world, how much national debt is sustainable?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Another year, another economic crisis. We\u2019ve been through Covid, the spike in inflation after \u00adRussia invaded Ukraine, the tanker blocking the Suez Canal, Trump\u2019s tariffs&#8230; Having survived them all, we could be blas\u00e9 about the threats posed by the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But maybe this is the one that gets us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With debt-servicing costs set to rise, perhaps now is the time to take action In a volatile world,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,11977,61,60,5243,70],"class_list":["post-331411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-department-of-finance-dof","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-simon-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}