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

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I will come on to answer the Deputy's question. The Deputy put a question to me and I am going to answer it.

The particular question the Deputy asked me was the degree to which we have already committed higher funding for housing for next year, as part of Project Ireland 2040 and the national development plan. We have committed additional funding for it. I do not have the figure in front of me here but maybe my officials in the course of the answering of the questions can get it for me, and I will share it with the Deputy. I have a fairly good idea of what the figure is but given the sensitivity of the matter, I want to give the Deputy the right one, and I will give it to him later on in the hearing.