Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The purpose of this question is to establish some baseline data for budget 2015. I should not really have to use a priority question to obtain this information, but, unfortunately, I do because we in opposition are still working from a document that dates from last April. We are relying on the odd scrap of information thrown into the public domain by Ministers who are talking in broad terms about a "neutral budget". Therefore, I tabled this question to try to establish the baseline position against the backdrop of the improving Exchequer figures and economic data to determine what it actually meant in budgetary terms.

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