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

The Oireachtas is funny in how it runs its affairs. I will ask the Minister of State to get responses from the line Departments, because the committee will be told the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht does not report to this committee and so it will not send us a letter, and the same will happen with regard to swimming pools because the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport does not report to this committee. The only way we can get information is through the Minister of State. The other Departments may well ignore requests from this committee.