Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Most of my questions concern detail and the lack of thereof.

I know the Parliamentary Budget Office has previously recommended that we should have a better breakdown into individual programmes. Analysing the specific headings, I find it difficult to get at the detail, which in turn makes it difficult for me to do my job of scrutinising the figures before us. I ask the Minister to drill down into some of them.

The first two are almost two sides of the same coin relating to grants. Miscellaneous grants and services have dropped by 60% in this budget and then A11 relating to grants to educational bodies has increased by 79%. While I am guessing we are seeing a drop in individual grants to schools, more administrative grants are being made available to educational bodies. I ask the Minister to drill down into that in more detail to help me understand those figures better.