Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Demographic-related costs are an important issue for the Committee on Budgetary Oversight in respect of expenditure profiles. Is the Minister satisfied that the estimates he is working with or commitments in the area of old age pension provision and health and education provisions, taking into account the demographic profile and projections that we are working to, are comprehensive and have fully factored into the medium and long-term fiscal position and spending plans of the State?