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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Is the 2023 figure €700 million?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Why not?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Working on this basis it would be fair enough to look at the pay deal on offer even though it has been rejected. The 2023 impact would have been approximately €700 million, with another €400 million in 2024 as other increments and the full year effects kicked in.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: If I table a parliamentary question asking the Minister for these figures if a pay deal kicked in for the public sector as proposed on certain dates would he answer the question?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: You are not answering them today.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, I will move on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I know they did not conclude.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We are trying to get an indication of the impact of what was on offer and, I presume, is still on offer from the Department and the impact it would have on the budget for 2023. This is all we are trying to do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We are not trying to sneakily find out-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Will the Minister clarify that capital expenditure will be increased by €800 million in line with the national development plan capital ceilings? Is this the figure we will see in the budget for 2023? Is there leeway to further increase capital? It is obviously not identified in the summer economic statement. The Minister could take some of the €2.7...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister clarify what is the capital allocation for the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government for 2022 and 2023 respectively?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The ceilings will be maintained with no increase beyond what is set out in the national development plan.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We know there is construction inflation and that it is running at a significant level. Is it 8% or 9%? According to Housing For All, which is underpinned by these capital allocations in the national development plan, the target for 2023 is 9,100 social homes, with 5,500 affordable homes and cost rental homes next year. How does the Minister expect to deliver this same number of homes with...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Has the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform run the numbers based on inflation? The target in the national development plan is 9,100 social, affordable and cost rental homes from next year. The Department has provided an allocation of €3.516 billion. This was when inflation was quite level at less than 2%. Now inflation is running at almost 10%. Has the Department estimated...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister have a figure for the likely carryover at this stage?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister have any estimation? Are we talking about €50 million or hundreds of millions of euro?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It has been signalled that a package of one-off measures will be introduced on budget day beyond the parameters outlined in the summer economic statement. Will any part of that package alter the projected general Government balance, or will it all come out of the underspend in terms of the Ukrainian refugees?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: How much of the contingency fund in 2022 is likely to remain unspent, given the trajectory of costs in terms of Ukrainians coming to our shores and the likely Covid expenditure by the end of the year?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I have a number of other questions. I have raised for many years that there is no legal impediment to the earlier publication of the White Paper that comes out at midnight on the Friday before the budget. The argument has always been that it is crucial to feed the September fiscal monitor into the White Paper. That September fiscal monitor will not be available this...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Why not?