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

Deputy Lahart has covered much already. I will focus on one or two matters specific to us. Has Disability Federation Ireland received any assessment of the impact of last year's budget on people living with disability? Have any of its member organisations done any such analysis for 2019? That would obviously be critical in helping us with this year.

The second issue links to that and follows on from Deputy Heydon's comments. I ask about similar processes in other parliaments - international best practice - in disability-proofing budgets. Is there anything the witnesses have picked up that could be fed into us? I refer to anything that has evolved in the past 12 months or in terms of where we are going with our work as a committee and where Government is going with its work on it. Those two items are very specific to the committee's work, but they are at the heart of what we are doing: last year's feedback and international best practice.