Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD

12:55 pm

Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In summary, how do we achieve more openness and transparency and how do we strengthen Parliament against bureaucrats and the Executive? It seems that the power has devolved to the bureaucrats and the Executive and they use it to spend more money than a country can afford. Most OECD countries, not only this one, have dramatically increased their debt-to-GDP ratio. Can stricter control of all of this save countries from going broke?

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