Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That idea has not been put forward. There is a Cabinet sub-committee that has been working on the national economic recovery plan, the recovery and resilience plan and various aspects of the economy. That meets regularly. There would not be a need for a special Cabinet meeting in the first instance. They would work their way through the Cabinet sub-committee if there were to be decisions of that kind.

For the sake of transparency, at Cabinet meetings per se, there can be expenditure reviews that various Ministers bring forward. They can be quarterly reviews and Ministers say how spending is going in their Departments, both current and capital. That is just good husbandry. It makes sense in terms of identifying earlier if there are underspends or overspends and whether we need to reallocate moneys to areas where they can be spent.