Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Robert Kelly:

I will not get into relative ratios. If we are looking at the €9.4 billion and saying it is not necessary at the moment, I would certainly not cut the capital spending part. If we were bringing the total figure down, I would be doing it on one of the other strata with the trade-offs that are there.