Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The OECD said in November that the Government currently has "primacy to the point of dominance" in the budgetary cycle. At the end of his remarks the Minister for Finance touched on one of the things that gives primacy to the Government, namely Article 17.2 of the Constitution. Does the Minister have any views on that article? If this committee took the view that it should be changed in some way to facilitate greater parliamentary involvement in the budgetary cycle, would the Minister support that or is he and the Department of Finance wedded to Article 17.2 as it currently stands?

The Minister said that the tax strategy group papers will be published in mid-July. Will those papers present a sufficient level of detail to allow the various committees to engage or will they provide only broad, macro figures?