Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
2:00 am
Edward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
I thank the Taoiseach and his staff for coming in here. It is great to have them here. It is my first time meeting the Taoiseach here at committee and I thank him for that. My questions are technical. They are on the budget and the numbers. I have a couple of more general questions that I will ask in the next session. I thought this was more confined to the numbers.
I have five or six questions. On page 2 of the summary note the Taoiseach gave for the Department of the Taoiseach, the outturn for 2024 was down between €4 million and €4.5 million. It was projected to be €37 million in 2024 and the outturn was actually €33 million. I wonder why that was down €4.5 million.
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