Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The broader parameters of the budget are the €895 million, which on 27 November was the detail of expenditure from the Department, not all of which had been fully committed. It is valid to ask whether all of that will be spent by the end of the year or whether there will be a further meeting next week to deal with other issues. The spending of this money is not a private process after all; it is a public process. It is valid to ask, when the Minister is here, whether that money will be fully spent or whether there will be a further meeting to disburse funds in a different way than we had anticipated.

Will the Minister also be back before us to give an assessment on the Doha deliberations and whether the Government would have seen what transpired there as satisfactory? Clearly, next year is approaching and we need to have some idea. It is useful to be able to ask that now. I ask, only so that it is in the public arena, that he include the amount of money that was spent going and the number of staff. I see no reason-----