Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Of course.

I am trying to be as accurate as I can in giving the Deputy the outline of the figures. We are close enough to settling the figures for next year and I will provide them. The idea of this discussion is for the Deputy to make suggestions about reductions or about where we should target spending to make bigger reductions elsewhere, because that is the kind of Department we are, and that is the dialogue I was hoping for. This is not a scrutiny of next year's Estimates because these figures are only indicative now.