Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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That is very welcome. To finish on the issue of the well-being budget, I have two questions. One of the witnesses said we would see something before the summer. When will the system be fully up and running and implemented in our annual budgetary development? The witnesses will probably have seen from our report that this committee has addressed or is interested in the budgetary cycle, including the timing of reports and decisions, the associated intersection with the important work of sectoral committees and the question of how we can improve that. Do the witnesses envisage that the implementation of initiatives like well-being, green and equality budgets will have an impact on the budgetary cycle? If so, how would it happen?