Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
4:40 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Approximately €700 million to €800 million is a result of the financial trials, which are small and some of them collapsed. The rest is attributable to the changes in the Central Criminal Court. We have changed how we deal with Estimates over the past number of years. The output targets remain the same despite an increase in activity. Even though the reason for this overrun or shortfall is increased activity in the Central Criminal Court, the actual output is exactly the same as what was budgeted for earlier which is between 3,000 and 3,500. Is that not the case?
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