Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They amount to €1.118 billion. I will spell it out to the Minister in further detail. When the Taoiseach set up the new Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, I thought it was a good idea and I supported it. In the Government's first full year in office, we have seen this Department fail utterly. The Taoiseach should take out the scorecards he stated he had for the Ministers. Here is the biggest Supplementary Estimate in living memory coming after the setting up a Department with responsibility for public expenditure.

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