Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that the Minister is leaving to do a press announcement on issues relevant to this committee. I respect the Minister but that is the wrong approach. This is the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight. The Minister has curtailed our proceedings to an hour and is going to leave here to make a press announcement on the expenditure review, which we, the members of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, should be discussing. As a result of the Minister's scheduling of that announcement, we have been curtailed in terms of our questioning and are not able to get into some of the finer detail.