Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Thanks, Taoiseach. And the top of your page 5, in your introductory remarks, you said, "the absence of any requirement at that time to conduct and publish cost benefit analyses on tax shelters and major infrastructure projects and to subject all major expenditure programmes to regular review;". And indeed Mr. Bruton says, "questionable project selection". Can we bring forward the Government economic evaluation service and have it feeding into Parliament and informing the decisions? And, in particular, could this inform the capital expenditure programme that's imminent, I think, in a matter of months, that it should be soundly evaluated rather than based on, you know, historical documents left around Departments, or people pushing their own pet projects?