Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

Much of the hopeless decision making we have seen on spending has its roots in the cavalier attitude that the Minister's Department and other Ministers have to expenditure review. They do not care what the projections or impacts are. That cavalier attitude is the reason for the debacles of electronic voting and Punchestown.

The Minister is giving distorted information to the Dáil. There are not 93 completed in respect of the 2002 to 2004 report. If the Minister reads the document, he will see that is so.

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