Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. The second supplementary budget is a standard part of the annual financial management process. It is a final opportunity for us to adapt the budgetary proposals for this financial year, which were approved by the Assembly last year. I would like to thank the Finance Committee for their scrutiny work on this second supplementary budget. I will be responding to the Chair in due time.

This budget is mainly an opportunity to make the necessary changes, as a result, to financial management during the year, reconciling the resources available with the Government’s priorities. The majority of the changes to plans are mainly administrative.