Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. We left questions on the overall budget until now. The document from the Department is excellent and very useful. I have not said that in five years about the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform or Finance. It is not random praise. While the document is good at referring to what is happening, the targets and activities, it does not detail what is not working. Such information this tends to be missing from Government reports. Inevitably, with an €810 million spend, while much will go according to plan and some things will be better than expected, some things will not be working. Are there specific line items or spends contained in what the Department is asking the Dáil to vote through that are working ahead of expectation and are there important areas that are not? Given that we are six months into the year, it is inevitable that some things will not be working as planned.