Mr. Niall Cassidy:

I will come in on that point. The broader theme of transparency came up earlier with Deputy Mairéad Farrell. We have made major efforts over the past couple of years to improve the transparency in the overall budgetary documentation. We fully took note of some of the points that were raised at the committee meeting last week.

The economic fiscal outlook in the budget documentation from, for example, 2013 contained 20-odd pages and 13 tables. The same part of this year's documentation runs to 60 pages and approximately 30 tables. Within those, we are trying to bring greater transparency to what is happening on an underlying basis, as Mr. McGann talked about earlier, in respect of GGB*, GNI*, etc. We take these concerns on board. We are always trying to improve upon transparency and get that balance right. It is a wide audience, which includes the public, Deputies, the media and academics. However, as I say, when one looks at some of the boxes and tables within the economic fiscal outlook, they are very much designed to walk people through some of the very technical issues facing the economy at the moment. The Deputy probably saw the citizens' guide published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is an important piece of work in trying to illuminate some of these areas.