Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage
6:00 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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It is too early in the work I want to do in this regard to be able to answer that question. As Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, I am intimately aware of how the health of the social insurance fund - whether it is in surplus or deficit - makes a big difference to the figures at budget time. I have too much work to do. That is why I want this work to be done before I can indicate what kind of transfers will be happening.