Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the projections as set out in budget 2010 remain on target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17553/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Budget 2010 forecast an Exchequer Borrowing Requirement of just under €19 billion and a General Government Deficit of some 111⁄2% of GDP in 2010. The most recently published fiscal data for 2010 are the Exchequer Returns for the end of the first quarter of the year, published on 2 April and these were broadly in line with my Department's expectations for the first quarter of the year. My Department continues to analyse the emerging trends. However, at this stage of the year I have no reason to change the budgetary targets for 2010.