Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Meanwhile, there was a "battle" going on in the national media about current expenditure overruns. An overrun of €600 million on the current side was a matter of "battles", but no one mentioned that, by the way, there was a €400 million or €500 million overrun on the capital side also. That no one even looked at this for months is not credible. The net point is that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform had his own man on the board with a responsibility, according to the Government's own circular, to report to him.

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