Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Our ultimate job is advise the Department about what we want to achieve in 2018. At the moment the stability programme update, SPU, is still fairly dismal. We are still in a stranglehold and that is the way we feel as a committee. Can we somehow use the positive figures that will have an impact in 2019 and backdate them for ourselves in order that there is a better and more expansive budget in 2018, particularly in areas like housing and health or on things we need to improve in this country?