Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion

4:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Any documents we have on decisions we have made can be made available. However, this must be within some parameters. Any Government needs to have the space in which papers can be presented to it to help in the decision-making process without risk of them being interpreted in such a way that creates unnecessary worry or challenges. The freedom of information legislation recognises the deliberative process in policy-making.

At the moment, the Deputy is asking me whether the Government has defined exactly what savings are going to be made.

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