Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and I suppose, there seemed to be a tendency from the reports I've read that that was viewed as a starting point in the budget process and that, you know, that there would be a natural increase in expectations from there to the budget. But what was the Department doing from June, when it gave that memo to the Minister, to December and all the horse trading that went on in between?