Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have staff from the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service spread throughout Departments and they have a very detailed understand and knowledge of frameworks such as equality budgeting, the well-being framework and so on. That is the reason we are increasingly finding that proposals that come to us already have a distributional analysis done. I see in my interaction with colleagues that the information is more rounded and comprehensive. Certainly, when the Minister and I present to the party leaders on budgetary issue, which we do all of the time, we look at these issues and we let them know what the distributional impact is, whether it be by income decile or household type. Even in very recent meetings, we did that.