Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Government Departments' Savings. Whether savings are net or gross
Summary
Woods asks whether the £19.9 million savings figure accounts for cost increases imposed by the July budget. Bruton clarifies that the figures are gross and do not account for those increases.
I should like to ask the Minister if this figure of £19.9 million is a net figure, net of the increases which were imposed on the various Departments through the budget which the Minister introduced in late July? Will the Minister confirm that and tell the House the figure for the imposition following the budget on these Departments?
Comment on this
The Departments, of course, will have had their costs increased since the budget and I should like to know whether the Minister has taken this into consideration in the savings he spoke of today.