Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
11:10 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
No. In the middle of the year I went to the Oireachtas and sought approval to change the expenditure ceiling for the Departments of Health and Justice and Equality. We increased the expenditure ceiling for the Department of Health by just under €500 million and for the Department of Justice and Equality by between €40 million and €50 million. Owing to events in the first half of last year the Estimates had not gone before the Oireachtas; therefore, we did not revise them as such. We put forward Estimates that were different from what we had previously had and they formed the basis of the expenditure ceiling. We did not breach them, nor have we done so since 2011.
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