Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the report of the expenditure review group under the chairmanship of Colm McCarthy prior to budget 2010; if so, the expected date of publication; and if he proposes institutional arrangements for the implementation of these proposals. [19050/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Mr Colm McCarthy is chairing the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes. Under its Terms of Reference, the Group is to report to me by the end of June and this is on course. The question of whether to publish the Report will be considered by the Government in due course.

The Special Group's analysis and recommendations will be taken into account as appropriate by the Government in framing budgetary policy and preparing the Estimates of Expenditure for 2010 and later years, and the question of new institutional arrangements to implement proposals of the Special Group does not arise.