Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Finally ... I just want to raise the issue of how open to scrutiny was the Government decision-making process. For example, was the Oireachtas sufficiently aware of the stakeholders with whom Government Ministers might have consulted in the pre-legislative stage? How was this information made available? And, in your opinion, were Opposition parties adequately consulted by Government, in particular, on issues which may have been deemed to be of national importance?