David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, model that the Houses are bringing forward is challenging and interesting, but if we all support the work of the Department throughout the year, examining, discussing and making an input into how the money is spent and the outturns, it could be very beneficial all round. Members could have helpful suggestions and ideas.

We will go through each subhead one at a time and we can deal with comments on them. We will start with subhead A1 on administration and pay, where €33,785,000 has been sought. In previous years this would have been paid on the first pay days of the new financial year, but that has changed.