John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When an organisation from my constituency that operates under sections 38 and 39 raised a query about the management of its funds at an Oireachtas meeting, through a patient, I asked for a report on the fact that it is now being charged for services it was not charged for before.

It takes a considerable length of time to get any information on it and, to date, I still have not received the information on it. Recently, I had to submit a parliamentary question to try to extract the information, despite the fact it was promised at a meeting of Oireachtas Members. I suggest to Mr. O'Brien this is an area that should be examined in terms of savings. Much of the information for both the Oireachtas parliamentary question system and the HSE system should be held locally or centrally and it should be easier to get the information provided in a more timely fashion for Members.