Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have three small points to make. Deputy Donohoe touched on the point that the representatives of Garda members and Defence Forces personnel are not covered by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and consequently must appear separately. Second, I believe the committee should meet in the week the Dáil is not scheduled to sit because I believe members must finish their work considerably more than a week earlier as, in truth, I believe the Estimates will have gone to the Bundestag, through the troika, before Wednesday, 21 November. There is no point in members discussing something here during the last week in November when they might be reading about it a week earlier through the European press. If members seek to have an input into the forthcoming budget and Estimates process, they will need to have completed their work by 14 November. I suggest they should make up that week by sitting once or twice in the week in which the Dáil is not scheduled to sit.