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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue in time for a student (details supplied) in Donegal travelling on a school trip that was submitted in January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20144/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a full response will issue to correspondence (details supplied) sent in March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19978/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is just after changing tax last week.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made regarding who is to avail of the community recognition fund 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19733/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Tá fáilte roimh an dá Aire chuig an gcoiste. To pick up on that point about the spending rule the Government has adopted, this year core expenditure will increase by 7.4% compared with 2022. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, says that is to do with cost-of-living pressures, but those pressures are outside of the core expenditure in the main. Is that not the case? That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What, then, is the Government's rationale for increasing core expenditure by 7.4%, which is about 50% higher than the rule it had?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is it the Government's intention to stick to its 5% rule for next year in terms of core expenditure? Obviously, this rule does not include taxes, so there could be a package of €2 billion in terms of taxes and it would not include non-core expenditure, which last year was over €5 billion. In core expenditure terms, is the Government wedded to the 5%, even with inflation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: But there may be a departure again, and that will be outlined in the summer economic statement. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: As for the Government's view of non-core expenditure for next year, it is €700 million compared with €5.2 billion this year. Obviously, this year's expenditure was largely the support package for households in response to the cost-of-living pressures, but can the Ministers give us a breakdown of the €700 million in non-core expenditure? Is that the humanitarian supports...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. I am aware of that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: When we look at the SPU table here, which details €5.2 billion last year, was any Ukraine money included in the €5.2 billion?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Why are we not including any Ukraine money in 2024?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is because the Government has not made a decision to continue to maintain Ukrainians' residency here that it has not just included the €1.6 billion.