David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have to very careful about the resources we have because we are very limited in that. The other issue is that our Parliament is developing a committee system now much more than it had in the past. Other parliaments are way ahead of us on this. The parliaments themselves and jurisdictions have far more say and authority than we have here, though it is changing slowly. I am not sure whether any colleagues here wish to respond to Professor Barrett.