Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

——and of the new Accounting Officer. In the course of the budgetary process, we were given figures that indicated a total capital carryover for the Government of €285 million under the capital carryover rules. Before the end of the year, that had increased to €343 million. I asked the Department about this vast increase. We are now told there is a further error in the Estimates of €56 million, which was wrongly classified as capital carryover when, in fact, it was spent on current account.

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