Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Deputy Connolly. It is important that it be said on the public record that we are under-resourced as we speak. Not only do we have a very busy schedule, we also have a very diverse brief, unlike other committees, perhaps. Everybody is before us, which causes a challenge for us, as members, but also for the staff because we are covering virtually the entire gamut of public bodies, officials and so on. We need the meeting and we need to agree a day and a time for it. We just need additional resources. It is doing a huge disservice to the public to under-resource any committee, this one in particular.