Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Again, I want to tease it out using indicative figures. If we are looking at an overrun of €600 million and are saying that over 80% of it is recurring, this is about €500 million that would have to go into the base. How would that be dealt with? If only €800 million in discretionary spending is available in budget 2019, is there an automatic conclusion that this spending is now reduced from €800 million to €300 million using those indicative figures?