Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to touch on the same point and I spoke about this at the last hearing dealing with this legislation. It is hard to remember back to where we were at. Fianna Fáil's bigger group of amendments, or the next group, deal with getting rid of the relevant committees. We examined that and I have some sympathy for that but my understanding is that this group of amendments relates to getting rid of the procedures committee only. Like Deputy Ó Laoghaire, I have less sympathy for that argument than I have for the argument made in the next group of amendment dealing the other relevant committees. There is a logic in having the commission as a whole doing all the decision making. What is the point in setting it up and having another gang of little groups all over the place? I am seeking clarity on whether the idea of having a procedures committee only set up at the start is to decide the criteria of selection. Is it dissolved then? Is that it? The procedures committee has one job and one job only, which is to set up the criteria for selection. There is more logic in the idea that a smaller group might be better at doing that.