Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Stability Programme Update: Discussion
3:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I know the Minister cannot be definitive now and I have specifically said that, but I have asked for an answer based on the information that is available at the minute. There is a view out there that fiscal space was at €3.2 billion but that when a number of things that have been committed are factored in, the budget space for next year is reduced to something like €500 million. On today's figures, what is uncommitted or not committed? We have budgets saying €3.2 billion of fiscal space. We know that may change in the summer but how much of that is committed at this point?