Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is similar to the local authority telling me that we had 100 staff, the work was all motorway projects and the amount of work being done is down by 70% but it still has 85% of its staff. One can talk about the projects being subcontracted out. Estimates should be about the outcome and outputs. The outputs have been seriously diminished but the staff number have not been reduced to the same extent. I am not suggesting the Minister of State can do that. My point is that there is another way of analysing the figures than the way the Minister of State presented them. It is an alternative analysis.