Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman's suggestion is useful, but if we are to engage in this we need the same information the Minister is going through daily in his Department, because without that information we will be unable to make a realistic input. Everything is predicated on no policy change. We need the information we requested, including what has happened so far this year, what is the likely outturn, where are the savings and overruns and so on, and the detail of that staff breakdown. I do not doubt the Minister noted our requests. If that could be provided, we could then have a meeting and come back with a better focus on where savings could be made and how they might be achieved.