Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Many of these rules are very sensible. It is an awful indictment of politics in Ireland that we have to do this as it is exactly what we should have been doing for years. I would much prefer the Department of Finance to play this role than a group of removed bureaucrats, no matter how good, in Brussels or wherever. Who will do the analysis? When the Government submits its budget in mid-October, I presume there is a group of technocrats sitting in Brussels who will put our budget through the wringer. Who are they?