Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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We are not in a position at the moment to forecast what it will be beyond 2023. We found it a difficult enough process trying to reach a view on the number of people who could come to the country next year and then the cost per person or per family that could be involved. As it is, there was a fair bit of judgment involved in that figure. As to what the figure will be beyond 2023, I think the best opportunity we will have to review that will be when we get to the budget.