Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Particularly from a gender perspective, that definitely affects women. They are risk averse when it comes to messing with benefits. You have spoken a little about the annual merry-go-round of the budget and supports for businesses that maybe do not work by the time the finance Bill comes along. Sometimes that also seems to happen for some social protection schemes. They have an unintended consequence for a certain cohort if they are receiving something in a particular area. We have talked a little about the phasing in of changes. Can we do a deep dive into what that would look like in real time? Who would be in that room? When would it happen? How far out from budget day would it be? Can we look at that in real detail? Let us say there was a SME project that we wanted to take on and that there was a new scheme. Let us say it is February. Can we think about what that would look like in real time for the business community? How early would it need to know? How would we roadmap that or test that with businesses? Obviously if it is a proposal, we would not actually be doing it yet. There would be no money there yet. What would that look like if, for example, we were to bring a proposal to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform?