16 DFómh 2012, 17:35
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan TD; Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin TD and Mnister of State at the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform Brian Hayes TD will attend the meeting of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform tomorrow, Wednesday 17th October 2012 to discuss allocations for 2013.
Ciarán Lynch, TD, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, said: “As part of the Programme for Government 2011 and the Dáil reform programme, Committees now have the opportunity to examine Estimates on a whole-of-year basis, and our meeting tomorrow forms part of that initiative. This pre-budget engagement with the Ministers will provide committee members with a greater input into the budgetary process and is an important part of our work programme. While the Ministers may not be in a position to give precise details on the 2013 estimates for the services they provide, we expect that they will give an outline of the savings to be made in departmental expenditure in 2013 and the impact on services as a result. Members will have a chance to consider the budgetary challenges facing the Ministers and to give their views on the form that any adjustments or savings should take.”
This meeting will start in Committee Room 4, Leinster House at 2pm on Wednesday 17th October.
Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o
For further information please contact:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551
Committee Membership
Deputies
Richard Boyd-Barret, People Before Profit
Michael Creed, Fine Gael
Jim Daly, Fine Gael
Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein
Stephen Donnelly, Independent
Sean Fleming, Fianna Fáil
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Peter Mathews, Fine Gael
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
Ciarán Lynch, Labour Party (Chairman)
Michael McGrath, Fianna Fáil
Michael McNamara, Labour Party
Dara Murphy, Fine Gael
Timmy Dooley, Fianna Fáil
Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael
Arthur Spring, Labour Party
Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin
Billy Timmins, Fine Gael
Liam Twomey, Fine Gael
Senators
Sean D Barrett
Thomas Byrne
Paul Coghlan
Michael D’Arcy
Aideen Hayden
Tom Sheahan