Dáil debates

Thursday, 15 November 2007

10:30 am

Photo of Brian CowenBrian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The arrangements for the budget are based on reforms I have been introducing in recent years. As the Deputy pointed out, there will be a unified budget on this occasion where items of expenditure and taxation will be dealt with on budget day. This was something which had been recommended by committees of the House in the past and in previous reports.

The benefits of the new arrangements are that since the pre-budget outlook has been published, in the case of this year, far earlier than would have been the case in the Abridged Estimates Volume, it has provided an excellent opportunity for the Opposition to come forward with what its budget might contain since it has the ELS provision.

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