Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Deputy McGrath is the Minister for Finance and Deputy Donohoe is the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. They know the ballpark estimates of how much money they are looking at. I appreciate the Minister did not hear the Taoiseach speaking earlier in the Dáil, but if the Taoiseach knows, the two Ministers definitely know about the underspend in TBESS, the unallocated expenditure and the windfall tax on energy. Surely the Minister has a ballpark figure. I am not asking him to tell me exactly what is in the package, given the Government will have to agree that, but surely he has a ballpark estimate of how large it will be. By the sounds of what the Taoiseach said earlier, he knows, so I imagine both Ministers know too.
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