Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Not at all. I am glad we could accommodate the Deputy. That exchange has given us all a real insight into the inner workings of the budgetary processes. I thank Ms O'Loughlin for that. I will now bring the meeting to a close. I warmly thank our witnesses today: Ms O'Loughlin and Mr Hearne from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and Ms O'Riordan and Mr. Culhane from the Central Statistics Office. We are grateful to them all for giving their time and for feeding into our deliberations on the recommendations of the citizens' assembly. We all found the exchanges really useful and valuable.