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

We did publish them across the period but when we published them, we said that their level of accuracy was significantly lower than we normally accept. When we published them and fulfilled our legal requirement - as opposed to legal impediment - we said that their level of accuracy was in some way short of what it normally would be. In fact, as part of the medium-term budgetary strategy, which the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, and I published last year, it had to include the expenditure ceiling. It was done but when they were published, we acknowledged that their accuracy would be very different from normal years.