Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Transparency is a key thing here. We have a responsibility as well as the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to look at this. Every year on budget day we get the 250-page expenditure report. Social Justice Ireland has previously raised the issue of how the information is presented there. In many ways it is a political document. For example, there is a list of measures and costs that have no bearing to the real allocation for new measures. Is the budget announcement and the document sufficiently transparent and how does Professor McMahon think that we need to make it more transparent for people?