Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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A number of budgets - all budgets in recent years, even beyond the immediate and more recent energy and cost-of-living crises precipitated by wars in Europe and so on - have really been works of fiction because individual Ministers have been coming back to the Dáil the year after October's budget with significant Revised Estimates. Is the era of significant cost over-runs over and does the Minister expect Ministers will be coming back next year with multibillion euro demands on the Dáil for additional expenditure?