Mr. Brian Hayes:

Yes it does but it depends on the number of people they have there from the Department in question. We have 420 delegated Acts in my committee that we will be looking at in the next year involving secondary legislation on financial regulation. I believe there is a role for the finance committee in working with me on weeding through the files to find out what my priorities should be on their behalf.

We have 28 current files in ECON that are outstanding. Ms Boylan, MEP, spoke about some of the files she is working on. I would very much like to know the priorities of the Irish parliamentarians that I might take up. That is where our engagement needs to improve. Chairman, this is not a criticism, but we need to engage much closer with the sectoral committees, where we are leading on behalf of the people.