Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
The Minister claims that is what he has done and that is why he has made the decision. Workers know they are worse off but the Minister is claiming this is why it was done. Barring a pandemic, a war or some other issue outside of our control, can the Minister say, as the Minister for public expenditure whose responsibility it is to make sure there are no overruns, that there will be no overruns next year, or at least no overruns in excess of €500 million? Let us give the Minister €500 million to play with. Can he make that commitment?
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