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)
Is the Minister willing to stake his reputation and credibility on this? He talked about credibility. We know about external shocks. If such shocks occur, there will be pressures. Barring external shocks, has the Minister brought forward a budget which he can guarantee will not involve overruns of over €500 million? Every year since he has been in office, along with Paschal in the past, Departments have run billions of euro over budget.
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