Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question refers to the supplementary allocations sought by various Departments for 2015. A figure of some €1.2 billion has already been noted, the largest Supplementary Estimate in the history of the State. I appreciate that, since filing this question, time has been set aside tomorrow for a debate on the Appropriation Bill and that we will at least have some discussion in that format. We told the Minister how disappointed we were that these matters were to go through on the nod without debate and about the failure to bring forward, within the agreed timeframe, information for me and Deputy Sean Fleming. Is it fair to say a Supplementary Estimate of this scale is an explicit recognition by the Minister that the health, education and other sectors were underfunded by him?

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