Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In last year's budget they spent last year's fiscal space and half of this year's fiscal space in terms of the carryover. The net fiscal space that was available for the coming budget was approximately €0.5 billion. Has the Department altered the projections on that? Will we see something significantly different? The Department surprises us quite often. It came before the committee last year and told us it was €1 billion and a week later it was €1.2 billion. Will we get another pleasant surprise next week where the fiscal space has increased again?