Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance

2:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Or €355 million. Everybody thinks that expenditure will meet income. The Taoiseach referred to the matter yesterday but that is not the case. I wish to clarify that we have not seen a departure from the economic stance stipulated in the summer economic statement. Is the Minister targeting the structural balance?