Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate that point that it is a great piece of work.

One of the things we are looking at in our committee is tax expenditure and all of this is direct expenditure, is it not? When you give the figures for expenditure under each departmental heading, it is the direct allocations and presumably does not take account of the expenditures. Do the witnesses think it would be plausible - it would certainly be good in my opinion - to also look at the tax expenditures under each of those departmental headings and to look at what they are delivering for us? This is obviously a major step forward in terms of seeing what we are trying to achieve with direct funding allocations. Now we can measure that. We have been discussing the fact that there is no real, or very little, measurement of tax expenditures even though they are supposed to achieve certain things as well. Is it a plausible that we could work towards this report, including that analysis as well?