Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are all inundated with sports capital grants and so on, particularly at the moment. It is hell to access grants coming from Europe. Do people come through the witness's office? I know the southern regional assembly used to be involved in information for different organisations that were looking for funding from Europe. It is positive that people see there is funding and linkage money there. How do we get that across to those organisations?

On what Mr. Temple-Smithson said about the European Parliamentary Research Service, EPRS, and its contacts with the library service and so on, how do parliamentarians access that?

The petition system within the parliament gives Irish citizens another area to raise their own issues, such as taxi deregulation. One does not hear of many people taking up that petitions role. Does it still exist? How do people do it? We are inundated with different individuals and organisations coming to us with concerns over the failure of the Oireachts and other legislative organisations to deal with their difficulties. What can we do as Europeans in that regard?