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

I have a final question. Can we take it from what the Minister has just said that, come budget day, he will read out a gender equality budget statement alongside the budget itself? This committee has done much work in this area, and I know that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform also has its own programme on this. Will the Minister do this and will he respond to the committee's report on gender budgeting? Will he be using the ESRI's SWITCH model to evaluate the budget before he stands up to deliver it?