Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My question ends on the issue of oversight and the Government's understanding of the impacts of those decisions. Do the witnesses think the Government is conducting regular reviews of the efficacy of those decisions? For example, we have looked at tax expenditures in detail and have come to the conclusion the Government is not looking regularly at the impacts. We look at it regarding the equity for households, but we do not always look back at the legacy decisions we live with now and question whether a certain tax subsidy or tax expenditure is doing what it said on the tin originally or whether we have just inherited it.