Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

2:00 am

Photo of Edward TimminsEdward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I have a few questions. In its opening statement, the council says that spending overruns from last year were not taken into account when budgeting for 2025 and that this has been a repeated issue in recent years. That seems like a very basic thing to be happening. I cannot understand why it is happening. Do our guests have any quick answers as to why that is happening?