Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This letter is from Mr. Desmond to Ms Anne O'Connor, dated 11 April 2019. In it, Mr. Desmond states, referring to the value improvement programme, that the Department is acutely aware of the different approaches required in 2019 and that it is evident, from the submission, that there has been considerable engagement at operational level to develop and formulate a monitoring and reporting arrangement around it. I am wondering about that monitoring and reporting arrangement. Are there reports on that?

We are all trying to get a handle on how the deficit mitigation, re-profiling or interventions - cuts, as we might call them for shorthand - will impact on the people we represent. If there is a series of reports out there that indicate where some of that re-profiling, or whatever, might be going on, it seems unfair that such information would not be available. I see no reason why it would not be published on an ongoing and interim basis.