Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Various members of this committee have made the following point. If we do not make an impact this year and ensure that the public can see that we have engaged in the budgetary process, avoiding the "big bang" announcement in October, then the public will have the perception that we have not done our job. Therefore, we need to do whatever it takes to ensure that we have made an input this year and clearly show that things have been done differently. I appreciate that we will have more time from next year onwards, but we must do whatever is necessary to ensure we make an impact this year.