Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I said in my opening contribution that I believe, in what I have outlined in the measures, that the individual expenditure policy issues justify holding my Vote at 2012 levels and not increasing it. If I was to live within the expenditure ceiling in the CRE, I should reduce expenditure by €2.3 million, as the Deputy rightly said. We have not come to a conclusion on that and the idea of a pre-Estimates debate is to decide whether that is wise policy and whether we should not go ahead with some of my proposals.