Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish profiles of expected tax revenues and Voted expenditure for 2009; the reason for the delay in their publication in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12298/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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In the context of the normal December Budget day decisions for both expenditure and taxation, monthly profiles of projected receipts and expenditure are generally published by my Department by the end of January every year. However this year, against a difficult and deteriorating economic background, it has proven necessary to revise the fiscal forecasts, initially in the context of the Addendum to the Stability Programme Update which was submitted to the European Commission on 9 January last and now in the context of the Supplementary Budget to be published on 7 April. Consequently, the publication of the monthly profiles has been delayed this year. I expect tax and expenditure profiles to be published by my Department shortly after the Supplementary Budget.