I welcome the Minister's remarks on value for money and the Estimates process. I have been critical of the process for some years. The fundamental difficulty is that it is entirely secret and the Estimates campaign that has been going on since the summer was conducted behind closed doors by senior civil servants and, in the latter stages, by Ministers. None of us has a notion what went on; we do not know how priorities were decided, except that we were told the committee of wise men were those who made the ultimate recommendations to the Minister for Finance. It is not acceptable that we make decisions on priorities entirely in private. There should at least be a requirement on Ministers to appear before the Dáil or a committee with his initial Estimates at an early stage so there can be an objective analysis of spending plans and, subsequently, as to how the money has been spent.