Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I accept what the Minister said at the end of his remarks. However, the key question is: if he does that, how can he spend an additional €3 billion on top of that? He knows, I know, his officials know and every member of the committee knows that he cannot do that. He will be left with €2.2 billion, at most. That is outlined in Table 6. The Minister should acknowledge that instead of referring to distractions in terms of wealth tax and so forth.

Perhaps he might wish to answer my other questions regarding Brexit and our preparedness for it. Also there are the unallocated resources and the corresponding figures in the SPU. It would be better if he or his officials provided that information to the committee.