Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 September 2018
128. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expenditure savings that are earmarked for his 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. [38487/18]
View answerAs the Deputy will appreciate, my officials are currently in discussion with officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) regarding the Department’s 2019 Estimates provisions for the Department’s two Votes, Vote 27 – International Co-operation and Vote 28 – Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. These discussions will obviously take account of any savings that the Department can identify in the provision of existing services in 2019 and will be factored in to the decisions on the Department’s 2019 Estimates provisions due to be announced on Budget Day, on 9 October 2018. I can assure the Deputy that it is the Department’s ongoing policy to seek to identify any expenditure savings that can be made across the Department’s two Votes, particularly in the context of any requests to DPER for funding for new or additional expenditure measures.
