Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance the reforms of the budgetary process to which he alluded in his Budget 2005 speech. [7069/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I am continuing to examine a number of options for change which could be implemented in the short and medium term. Any changes to the process would need to meet best practice, improve both the quality of debate and the data available to the House on the budget, meet our obligations to the EU and be capable of being delivered within the existing budget timetable. Before I bring proposals to the House, I will discuss the possibilities for change with my colleagues in Government. At that stage, I will bring proposals which the House will have an opportunity to discuss.