Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Although this is discrete, short legislation covering the area of multi-annual budgeting, it is important to put it to bed before we embark on the early budget. For this reason, it must be enacted this side of the parliamentary break. I thank the Deputies opposite for facilitating this requirement and giving robust and good consideration to the measures in the Bill. I look forward to an ever improving budgetary process as a result of what Deputy Sean Fleming described as impositions from afar, albeit impositions which are encouraging and helping us to have a more transparent budgetary cycle and ex ante budgetary process.

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