Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

2:40 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is all anything can be. The hands of Government cannot be tied. If the Government in 2007 was looking at a three-year horizon, it would have been a very different horizon to view by the end of 2008. There has to be flexibility to be able to alter course to meet changed circumstances and that is understood.

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