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

I may be unique in being a member of this committee when my party was in government. There must always be severe tension between the Government and this committee. The day it has a poodle in the top chair, the Government has won and the committee should close up shop. I was a member during the last Dáil and recall several occasions when a majority of the committee, both Opposition and Government backbenchers, laid into Accounting Officers.