Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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We have made a decision to support the residency of those who come to our country fleeing a war. Having visited a number of centres in which these poor people are arriving in our country at the moment, I can assure the Deputy of our commitment to continue to do our best by them. The principle of the stability programme update, however, is that it is done on a no-policy-change basis, and we have yet to consider what the non-core figure for 2024 will be, given that we are obviously in 2023. Obviously, a key date or point in all this will be reaching a better view regarding the movement of people into our country for-----