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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That is a very prescient question because when a Minister for Finance engages with Departments that have an underspend in a particular year or part of year, such Departments normally assure the Minister that the money will be spent by the end of the year. That is what normally happens.