Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The draft version of the stability programme update published yesterday contains positive figures for growth in the economy. What is the Minister's view on the impact of those growth figures on that €550 million figure? The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has just told the Committee on Budgetary Oversight of which I am a member that he will not be in a position to look at that properly and publish a figure until June but that he may be in a position to "modestly" increase it if these growth figures continue. Has the Minister any thoughts on this?

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