Conall MacCoille

So I think people need to be very conscious that

These corporate tax revenues, which we hope will continue to expand or be stable, but are clearly potentially volatile and have expanded very sharply over the past couple of years.

These have been used to fund our health service, our education, our social welfare payments.

We've got over 30 billion in corporate tax revenues, which we all know could potentially be volatile.

And yet we're only running a surplus of 5 billion.

So I think that's a very worrying statistic.

And, you know, 8% growth in spending is a very substantial increase, which I think we need to be concerned around.