Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Each budget I have introduced has been assessed by the European Commission as being compliant with our fiscal rules. I remember being where the Deputy is seated and being assured that rules were being met. I have to do better than that even though the rules are being met. To be clear, the European Commission has assessed the performance of the budgets I have introduced vis-à-visthe fiscal rules of the European Union and has said that I have complied with them.

On the matter of my breaching expenditure ceilings, more accurately it would be the case that expenditure ceilings, mostly in case of one or two Departments, have been breached and that is mainly centred around issues in the health area. To say we have breached these ceilings for all Departments-----