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

Yes, all Departments will participate. We have selected, at official level, specific subheads within each Department that are equivalent to approximately one-third of the expenditure under which this approach will be used, setting out the objectives for those expenditure subheads and using cost-benefit analysis and other economic techniques to determine whether they are delivering the objectives set in respect of them. I would expect the work to be completed in the second half of this year rather than the first half. It will be exceptionally serious if a Department breaches its expenditure ceiling. All our efforts go in month after month to making sure it does not.

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