Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is going to be tight. With regard to current expenditure, as I was saying earlier on, in Covid we had significant non-core one-off emergency funding to get us through. This is unwinding as we continue to come out of Covid and come to more normal times. The current side will be particularly difficult. It is always the area where it is most difficult to get commitments from Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform because current expenditure typically involves entering into multi-annual commitments. Capital spending is one-off by its very nature.