Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline all impact analysis on Budget 2012 conducted before and after the budget came into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53873/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Budget 2012, presented in December last year, was prepared in light of a major body of analytical work that was conducted across all Departments in the context of the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure (CRE) 2011. The main findings of that Review, and the detailed expenditure allocations across each area, were set out in last December’s Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2012-2014; and indeed that body of analysis, together with supplementary analyses carried out under the terms of the new Public Spending Code, has informed the allocations to be set out in tomorrow’s Expenditure Report 2013. All of the analyses conducted under the 2011 CRE are available on the website of my Department, www.per.gov.ie. Further information on the analysis conducted in each area, including impacts on particular groups and sectors, may be sought from the Ministers and Departments concerned.