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Dail Éireann · 2024-02-21

Consideration of Estimates by Committee: Motion

FG Leo Varadkar · Dublin West

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Could I ask the Taoiseach to move a motion regarding the Estimates? It is normally done by the Chief Whip but she has stepped out.

I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 215A, the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach may complete its consideration of the Estimates for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2024, standing referred to it pursuant to Standing Order 215(2), later than the sixtieth day and not later than the one hundredth day, being the 22nd day of March, 2024, after the Estimates had been so referred.

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CC Alan Farrell

Could I ask the Taoiseach to move a motion regarding the Estimates? It is normally done by the Chief Whip but she has stepped out.

FG Leo Varadkar this contribution

I move:

That, pursuant to Standing Order 215A, the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach may complete its consideration of the Estimates for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2024, standing referred to it pursuant to Standing Order 215(2), later than the sixtieth day and not later than the one hundredth day, being the 22nd day of March, 2024, after the Estimates had been so referred.