Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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If the Government does not do discretionary tax raising but does do discretionary tax reductions, as outlined in the plan, is it not the case that the core expenditure increase and the tax package have to be added to give the net spending rule under the Minister's own criteria and therefore it is a 7.5% increase?