Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The main way we will deal with the consultation needs within the Oireachtas that the Deputy outlined will be through engagement with the relevant Oireachtas committee. It would appear to me at this stage that the best committee for engaging with this process would be the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I am open to feedback from colleagues on that. There will be a savings figure that we will look to establish. At this point, I have not established what that figure will be. I am very open to engaging with groups and stakeholders in conducting this process.

On the Deputy's final point about whether it will track the impact on services on the ground, the only way we could do that would be to pick a certain number of particular areas and prioritise those within the approach. If we were to look at the totality of Government spending and its impact on front-line services, we would not complete it inside the time I want. We published some examples on budget day of how this could be done when we looked in particular at the impact of the availability of medical cards and social services to young people to offer a baseline approach as to how this work could be done.

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