Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Surely last year, the Minister would have been able to predict that the number would hit 5,000 this year. The Minister put a figure to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and the Department of Finance last year, they did not accept it and they gave her an under-budget figure so she knew at the start of last year that she was under budget and would have to have a Supplementary Estimate this year. Will this year's budget meet the requirements for the year?