Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They are usually published in the mid-year expenditure report. There were not. I take the Minister's point now and I took it at the time in 2020, but will they be published this year in the mid-year expenditure report?

This is the last sitting day of the Dáil, after which the House will go into recess for more than eight weeks and the budget will not be published for a number of weeks after that. The inflation rate will be published today. I predict it will be close to 10%, the highest in 40 years. Does the Minister have any regrets about not introducing an emergency budget instead of leaving many thousands of families high and dry over the summer months, when the Dáil will be in recess?