Because there is no increase in overall budgets in the current situation there is an opportunity to look closely at expenditure control within Departments. Inevitably, when there are rapid increases in expenditure, a little tends to be wasteful. I know of a couple of instances in the semi-State sector in recent days. It has cost €250,000 to send train drivers by taxi to Longford. This morning there was a report of a Christmas trip to New York by 24 executives. There may have been justification for some of them going, but one wonders whether as many as 24 needed to travel, even though New York is very nice in December just before Christmas. It raises the question of whether the Comptroller and Auditor General should examine State agencies and semi-State bodies as well as Departments. I am firmly convinced that there is scope for economies within budgets and without loss of service which will increase the efficiency of spend. We must avoid the use of extra bureaucrats and artificially increasing work because it creates no real saving.