Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I certainly appreciate the Minister engaging with the process. I welcome Deputy Donnelly's comments on this as well. It is a simple matrix. There are Department heads and there are quarters for which one is on target, under target or over target, and the budgets in each Department are either current or capital. It is almost a one-page exercise.

I totally agree with the Minister's position. Whether it is education, health, social welfare or environment issues that arise, it would then be the task of this committee to write to the chairman of the relevant committee stating we believe there are budgetary issues in, for example, the Department of Education and Skills or the Department of Health, that the committee concerned might look at with the line Minister.