Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Yes, in respect of 2022. We accept that it is a lot of money. The demands of Covid-19 and the need to provide for Covid added more than €5 billion to public expenditure in 2021. Our concern was that we would not add €6 billion when we did not need to and that if there were savings on budget line, those savings would be used in the first instance to fund the temporary Covid measures. Really, it does arise in those very particular circumstances.
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