Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Again, we will agree to disagree. We would prefer it if the Minister outlined his expenditure plans at the committee so that they would be subject to scrutiny rather than us or his ministerial colleagues reading about them in the Sunday Independent.

One of those Ministers who read about it was Deputy Regina Doherty of the Department of Social Protection. Previous Governments allocated the underspend in the Department of Social Protection to the Christmas bonus. Will there be a Christmas bonus this year?