Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
May I suggest that they are not and that they involve both Departments? It is very much a public expenditure concern if there is a very big area of current expenditure. Yes, it is absolutely the job of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to say, "Here is our plan for public housing, and our policy is to reduce slowly but surely the level of HAP, RAS and leasing payments and the level of current expenditure." Surely, however, the trajectory of the reduction in that level of current public expenditure is very much the concern of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Surely-----
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