Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are making projections, particularly in regard to superannuation, and we are allocating them. With regard to the shared services issue, we are accelerating this project because we are bringing more than the human resource element into it next year and, therefore, expenditure will be greater than we anticipated on it. It would give clarity to do the exercise the Deputy asked for but I cannot do it in the abstract. We have given indicative spends and the ceilings for the Estimates next year but until we determine what they are, I will not be able to reply on a euro by euro basis, which is what the Deputy is focused on. He is talking as if we are considering an agreed Estimate. This is an Estimate in construction and the process we are engaged in is for him to help in the construction of it, not to disaggregate its component parts yet because they are indicative.