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
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
On the approved housing bodies, AHBs, and spending in this regard since the reclassification in 2018, the sums are obviously counted in the general government balance. When does the AHB spending show up in the figures for the general government balance? The budgetary strategy, as outlined in the summer economic statement, sets out the projected government balance of €11.7 billion if the budget package is implemented. Is the projected AHB expenditure also taken into account in the same way in the general government balance, the budgetary strategy or the €11.7 billion, or is it only netted up in retrospect once the AHBs report their actual expenditure?
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