Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Okay. With regard to the structural debt, I want to facilitate and co-operate with the committee because it can help me on the work of oversight. It is not an easy task because profiling departmental expenditure happens after we publish the Revised Estimates Volume, REV. For example, after April this year we have a monthly profile and can actually look at a comparator figure. I can give the committee the figures for all expenditure on taxation matters up to the first quarter, published against a profile of last year, which is not very helpful, but the more recent ones are profiled against this year, which I believe would be more much more helpful to the committee. I have a pack prepared which provides profiles up to the end of March and up to the end of May, which are the latest figures available. I will give these to the committee to have a look at them. It is difficult to disaggregate the meat of what the committee wants from this. I would like some discussion about how to construct this because we can give the committee a better precis of where we are at.