Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister. I have a couple of questions and I will throw them at him one by one if that is okay. The fiscal space is estimated as being around the €1 billion mark. Does the Minister anticipate, similar to last year, that there may be an increase in that space announced on budget day? With three weeks gone in September, is there a sense as to how the month's figures are looking that may allow an increase?