Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am using that time because this is not good practice. If we are going to take the work of this committee seriously, we need to get into the depths of these issues. I know reference was made to water charges. This is not about water charges, it is about the expenditure profile which we were discussing earlier and the process. I would like to talk to the Minister about the commitments in the programme for Government, about demographics and about the rainy day fund. We will not get to all of these questions because the Minister has made a decision to address the media on a matter with which this committee should be dealing.