Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure savings that are earmarked for her Department for 2019 that are not accounted for in the mid-year expenditure report or are not included in the fiscal space calculations for 2019. [38480/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The figures set out in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report in respect of my Department do not include expenditure savings targets. My Department is currently examining expenditure requirements across all programme areas, including expenditure trends in 2018, to identify how services can be delivered within the overall fiscal parameters for 2019.

As the Deputy will be aware, this forms part of the normal budget/estimates process and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further at this point.