Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The relationship between the Department and this committee has been a topic of conversation in this committee. I am new here and I have no experience of relationships between committees and Departments. From the Minister's end, is she content that the relationship between the committee and the Department is good, that we are kept in the loop around initiatives and that attendance at the committee by the Department is good? Is it regular for attendance to be more than what we currently see from the Department? Has the Minister anything to say about the relationship between the committee and the Department?