Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

They get a much greater degree of scrutiny at the individual committees than they ever got when Estimates were debated on the floor of the House. They are now considered programme by programme, which involves looking at the various objectives of Departments and measuring the Estimates against those objectives. To my knowledge none of the committees has asked that a particular Estimate should not be approved by the House.

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