Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

In effect, under our current system we have a unified budgetary announcement. I would be anxious, leading up to the budget, to give the maximum amount of information to the Opposition parties, as I did before the supplementary budget. I hope to repeat that facility, but I am not sure we can go much further than that. I thought that process was useful before the supplementary budget.

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