Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that point. It can be a useful tidying-up exercise and everyone believes in taking a practical approach to issues that can be dealt with. The Minister might comment on two issues that we were told came up in that discussion. One issue is the question of outsourcing. Some people believe that this agreement will restrict the level of outsourcing, which might be a value for money issue about which the Minister must have a concern. Outside the Lansdowne Road agreement, the Minister said that some of issues we just talked about may have an impact on Estimates in line Departments. Is it possible during a future Estimates debate that any concessions during the course of the year as a result of industrial relations negotiations could be flagged by way of a note from the line Minister explaining them? For example if there are three, four, five six or seven points teased out, some may involve a cost or some may be cost neutral. Is it in the public interest that people know what is going on?

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