Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for interrupting me. I believed I had a few minutes. I did not interrupt him. I will repeat my comments. This document is flawed and the Minister should be ashamed of it. I gave proof via the figures the Minister cited on budget day, which claimed extra expenditure for 2015 that ignored the Supplementary Estimates. Expenditure in 2015 will be less than it was in 2014 when last year's Supplementary Estimates are taken into account. I gave this as an example of how I considered this a flawed document and I was allowing the Minister an opportunity to give it some credibility by showing whether the previous expenditure report withstood the test of time. He is refusing that opportunity, so I can only conclude that he does not want to give us the information. I am sure that it did not stand up to time any more than this one will. However, we will not discuss that report today. When we have the figures, we will revert to it.