Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and I are working actively on that at the moment. We see it as a very important part of the overall picture and an opportunity to help future-proof the future of the country's finances. We acknowledge the need to spend more in capital and we will do that but we have to take the opportunity that is afforded to us now from receipts that are unreliable.

They are volatile in nature and will not be there forever. We will be making provision and laying out some of those plans on budget day.

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