Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance
1:30 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Discretionary revenue increases, I presume. Where is tax revenue at this point in time projected to come in at the end of the year? We know some of that buoyancy is coming from corporation tax. Does the Minister genuinely believe - it would be astonishing if he did - that we should be funding underspending in health by a buoyancy in corporation tax receipts where, everybody in this committee knows, there is a genuine likelihood that they will not present in a number of years at the same level?