Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Richard O'DonoghueRichard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)
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Because of the other commitments that the Ministers have. We have eaten into their time, which gives them a ten-minute window now to get to their next meeting. If we take extra time at this, their other commitments are actually pushed out. They have given us an extra half an hour more than what we first agreed on.