Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When I raised this matter at a committee meeting, the response was not clear. That was not down to the Minister. Rather, there was no proper scrutiny of the Revised Estimates. That was just the nature of the way the meeting was handled. I asked about the budget. The Minister announced €200 million of additional funding, but that did not reflect the Estimates budget book. In the budget document, the gross Revised Estimates for 2020 amounted to just shy of €1.003 billion. The gross Estimate for 2021 was €1.082 billion, representing an increase of €79 million. It is not that I am taking issue with the funding for Covid and so on in addition to core funding. Rather, my issue is that the actual increase for 2021 is €79 million.

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