Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
9:30 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There are a number of pieces of legislation before this committee that have been prevented from proceeding to Committee Stage that we want to bring Committee Stage because of the money message. As a starting point, the Minister could review those items of legislation and give us a detailed response as to why he has decided not to allow those to proceed. We hear so much about "new politics" yet this is old style politics. This is abusing power. Only the Government can issue a money message. It is frustrating the will of the Dáil. At the end of the day, we are either democrats or we are not. If those elected to represent the people of this State decide they want an item of law to progress to the next stage, then it is incumbent on the Government to facilitate that.
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