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

The Chairman has asked what is the situation. This happened previously on a committee in which I was involved with regard to an Estimate on which the members sought a meeting. They asked for the information, which was promised. It did not arrive before the vote in the Dáil the following week. I stood up in the Chamber of the Dáil and told the Ceann Comhairle that my party was not happy to proceed with the vote because Members were waiting for information. He told me he had a letter stating the committee had completed its consideration and that if I was not happy with what had been done at the committee, I should go back to the committee. In a previous situation in which the information was not provided as promised, the Ceann Comhairle in the Dáil told me I had no mechanism to deal with the matter and that I should not have let the matter go out of committee until I was satisfied. The Chairman should simply adjourn the meeting and members can come back next week for five minutes.