Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
5:00 pm
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source
I might have started by bidding the Taoiseach a happy new year, but I just realised that, 16 days in, the new year feels very old already, what with taxpayers being gouged by consultants, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, knowing nothing about anything, and the Labour Party in hiding. If I were a cartoonist drawing a cliché of the old man with the scythe leaving the old year and the baby coming in with the new year, I would have to seriously revise it in view of what we have endured in the past week in revelations. It does not bode well for the Government going into the new year.
The Chairman has put severe restrictions on us.
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