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

The Deputy has again mentioned the ESRI report. I thank its authors – Ms Michelle Barrett, Dr. Niall Farrell and Dr. Barra Roantree – on their excellent report, which was funded by the Community Foundation for Ireland, whose chief executive wrote in the foreword, "Many of the 5,000 voluntary, community and charitable groups we work with will be looking at this report and no doubt will reflect on it as they make pre-Budget submissions to government." Essentially, the report is a great bank of information published by the ESRI at the request of the Community Foundation for Ireland. It will facilitate proactive, detailed and more informed, fact-based and data-based pre-budget submissions, which will help the Government to take everything into account, as suggested by the chief executive in the report.

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