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- 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?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Will they be available after the first week?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The figures for September will be available to the Minister in the same way that the figures for October are available to him in the first week of that month. There is no reason the White Paper cannot be published on 9 September, in the same way that a White Paper is usually published around 9 October.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I encourage the Minister to give that commitment. I have two final questions. Does the Minister accept that there is a legal impediment on the Government to publish expenditure ceilings for three years?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Sorry. Is there a legal requirement on the Government to publish expenditure ceilings for three years?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not do that in 2020.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not do that in 2021.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Come on. Let us be clear. There is a legal requirement on the Minister to publish expenditure ceilings and it was not done in 2020 nor 2021 in the mid-year report.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: They are usually published in the mid-year expenditure report. Is that correct?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: They are usually published in the mid-year expenditure report. There were not. I take the Minister's point now and I took it at the time in 2020, but will they be published this year in the mid-year expenditure report? This is the last sitting day of the Dáil, after which the House will go into recess for more than eight weeks and the budget will not be published for a number of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Are they going to be published?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if a bus escort trained in the administration of buccal midazolam will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38438/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I will delve into some of the figures now that make up the summer economic statement. We might look at existing levels of services, which the council commented on with regard to its assessment of the SPU and again today. The summer economic statement provided €2.2 billion in respect of maintaining existing levels of services and €800 million in respect of pre-committed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Let us tease that out a bit further. Mr. Barnes mentioned welfare and pay. When the Government talks about its allocation for next year in terms of existing levels of service, it is not talking about welfare increases. The latter will be provided under the discretionary amounts it has available. The existing pay deal is included in existing levels of service, but a future pay deal will...