Ms Louise Bayliss:

We are not looking for a huge economic change. All we are looking for is transparency, which was one of the cornerstones of the Government's proposals when it came to power. The budget is no longer even decided by the whole Cabinet, let alone the whole Oireachtas - it is decided by four people in the Economic Management Council, which runs counter to that. We seek transparency, and equality budgeting is very much about transparency. It is about giving the power to ordinary legislators to make the correct decisions with the information. There is obviously some reluctance to provide that information and transparency.