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Macroeconomic PolicyTABLE 5.1Current Public Expenditure: Supply ServicesAnnual Percentage Change 1987 to 2002 in Real Terms1987- 1989- 1994- 1999- 2002 1989- Percentage of1989 1994 1999 2001 2001 Total, 2002EconomicServices -11.4 6.0 3.1 17.8 -0.3 6.7 9.4Infrastructure -5.2 3.0 -8.4 20.8 7.5 0.8 0.5Social ServicesHealth -1.9 8.3 6.8 15.3 10.4 8.8 25.4Education -1.1 5.8 3.0 7.3 10.2 4.8 16.2Social Welfare -2.1 4.3 0.9 6.7 15.3 3.2 31.2Housing -21.9 -32.0 44.8 64.0 -8.6 7.9 0.4Subsidies -6.3 -2.5 -11.3 18.8 5.5 -3.1 0.8Subtotal -2.1 5.3 2.9 9.9 12.2 5.1 73.9Security -2.3 4.8 2.8 6.2 3.1 4.2 7.9Other -4.0 6.0 7.3 9.3 8.8 7.1 8.3Gross Total(real) -3.2 5.4 3.2 10.3 9.8 5.3 100.0Gross Total(nominal) 1.3 8.3 7.4 15.5 15.0 9.1Source: Calculated from Revised Estimates for Public Services, using the GNPdeflator. The 2002 figures are from the 2003 Estimates for the PublicServices (Abridged Version), Dublin: Stationery Office.The composition of current supply services expenditure is shown inTable 5.2. It is clear that supply services expenditure is dominatedby three major areas of social services: social welfare (31.2 percent), health (25.4 per cent) and education (16.2 per cent). Thesethree areas represented over 70 per cent of supply servicesexpenditure in 2002. Housing is a minor item in current supplyservices expenditure but is a more significant element in capitalexpenditure. Expenditure on economic services was equal to 9.4 per187