Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 July 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Summer Economic Statement: Discussion.
10:15 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I am sorry, I did not hear that part of the Deputy's statement. I said that we will have to deal with that later in the year. However, the overall level of underspend is where the resources will be to deal with this matter. If we have said that the cost of delivering clean water and maintaining that infrastructure in the country will be paid out of general Government expenditure and the general revenue we collect from the taxpayer, this is how it looks. The Government will have to make choices in the coming years because there will not be the revenue stream from the collection of water charges that we anticipated a number of years ago and it is now going to be capital expenditure funded by the State.
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