Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have received apologies from Deputy Donnelly. A pilot approach to gender budgeting has been adopted in the Revised Estimates for public services 2018, published in December. At last week's session we engaged with officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the general budget indicators that form part of that pilot. Today the committee will meet with representatives from the National Women's Council of Ireland, NWCI, to consider the equality budgeting initiative in greater detail.

Before we invite them into the meeting we are going into-----