Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Tá fáilte roimh an dá Aire chuig an gcoiste. To pick up on that point about the spending rule the Government has adopted, this year core expenditure will increase by 7.4% compared with 2022. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, says that is to do with cost-of-living pressures, but those pressures are outside of the core expenditure in the main. Is that not the case? That €5.2 billion package was non-core expenditure.