Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. McNally, the level of expenditure from 1998 by the State was €20.5 billion. Ten years later it was €62.5 billion. That's a trebling of expenditure on behalf of the State in a relatively short period. Did the Department do any international peer reviews with trading partners or anything of that nature to see ... to gauge the expenditure by the Irish State with other states?