Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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As for what we are trying to do in the budget process, there are two elements of additional expenditure we have added this year. Some of it relates to capital and we have provided for significant uplift in capital in the medium term with the national development plan review. Second, with the medium-term fiscal and structural plan and the moderation of current expenditure, which we have committed to do, part of the budgetary planning this year is to try to address some of the over-runs we are having in certain Departments. There may be a particular issue that will emerge where there is a requirement for intervention but the level of intervention in previous years is something we are trying to mitigate in the medium-term fiscal and structural plan.