Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe I am. I thought I had an appreciation of the advice it has given. We published this in the summer economic statement where we outlined that there could be a move into a deficit of between 0.5% and 1.5 percentage points of national income. I published that before the summer. I want to make clear that we will, of course, need to deal with many of the different issues in getting ready for Brexit and the challenges that will bring within the framework of the €2.8 billion and look to expand that, if necessary, through revenue-raising measures. That is the case.

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