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
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Our focus is on budget 2024. That will be the main fiscal event of the year and will lay out our plans for all of next year. We have indicated that we will again bring forward a package of temporary one-off measures. I note the Deputy's comments in relation to those one-off measures. I think there has been an attempt to almost devalue the value of those one-off measures. They were real and the payments were of great value to people who received them and they were very warmly welcomed.