Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to be fair about this. Over €500 million is provided for in Vote 12. We are looking for €25 million today. That represents a deviation of 5% by 31 December on what was in the Estimate on 1 January. Fair is fair. At a time when we are dealing with more extended exits from the public sector than ever before, and given that we are relying on information coming back from Departments, I think we have got it quite right. The Deputy said we have never had this before. We had this in 2009, when the Deputy's party was in government.