Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said, Ms Burke's submission was very interesting and bar the €385 million hole, it was very useful.

Could I ask each of the contributors about equality budgeting? It is something we asked Government to consider. It has considered it and said "No". The notion is that one measures the impacts of decisions taken on the taxation and spending sides on key demographics. Very briefly, I would like to hear the contributors views on that method being-----