Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There have been many announcements about quite significant expenditure. I have to give the Minister great credit for that because lots of things have happened that many of us would have liked to happen in the past, but he will know better than I do that we cannot keep writing the cheques forever. In view of the war in Ukraine, what will the likely outcome be in respect of expenditure at the end of the year? Significant extra costs are being borne and we are told the economy and growth this year will not be as robust as we had hoped. Will the Minister give me an outline, at this stage of the year with four months gone, of how we are going ahead?

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