Minister told Cabinet of plans to allocate net €6.3bn to fund capital works, public pay costs and cost of living measures
Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe: 'We’ve handled the supplementary estimate process in the same way I have every other year.' Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collinshas denied the allocation of extra money to Government departments earlier than normal is a clearing of the decks for a
“We’ve handled the supplementary estimate process in the same way I have every other year. It’s exactly the same,” he said, arguing that the Government had to allocate the funds to to ensure Departments had funding for the rest of the year. He added that “nobody had expressed any surprise to me” when they were asked to supply the figures.
Mr Donohoe said that the proposals he brought to Government this morning were part of the “normal procedure at this point in the year”, adding that he was “handling this issue in the same way as I have done in other years”. The extra allocations have a value of €7.1 billion in gross terms, or €6.3 billion net once savings achieved in the public service are offset against the total, Mr Donohoe said.
Expenditure in the health service, he said, has moved back in line with what had been expected but that the Government needed the position at the end of the year to be in line with what was agreed on budget day. He said any hiring that takes place in the HSE had to be in line with the strategy announced in the budget.
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