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
Michael 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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