Feargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister and his team. He must be proud of the achievements that have become evident in the past year. Is there a possibility that the Government's targets were not high enough? The Comptroller and Auditor General has today criticised some of the shortfalls that have occurred in the past, though not necessarily in the Minister's area. There was criticism that we have not necessarily been able to adhere to the budgets we set out. Is the Minister happy enough that the targets he and his team have set out were testing enough to ensure that they would have to work hard to achieve them?

I say that in the knowledge that the team has achieved quite a lot and it can stand back and say just that. My question is whether the specific targets were high or tough enough. Were they the sort of targets that would get people striving to achieve them?