Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That criticism from our fiscal advisory watchdog is not being heeded or the Minister has a different view regarding how he should proceed in factoring in the Christmas bonus. Let us go to the other aspect of this matter. The figures presented earlier this year lacked credibility. The Minister made the point that he has increased the expenditure projections to what he termed slightly more than 2%. It was much more than that. It was closer to 3% and that has now been increased to 3.25%. I want to dig down into those figures. The expenditure increase this year for budget 2020 is 0% and the increase for next year was €100 million extra. That was to take on board the IFAC's criticism that the Minister is not giving real credible expenditure figures. Would that be correct?