Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We have discussed this matter. A subset of issues are involved. As the House is aware, from this year on, the budget announcement on the expenditure and the taxation sides will take place on 15 October each year. This forms part of the new European semester to which we have all agreed. We will not have a two-phased budget, that is, where the Estimates will be published in advance. When I saw the Deputy's amendments, I wondered whether he had made a mistake in wanting the Estimates ceilings debated a month before the budget. Things change in that month-----

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