Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The total number of Private Members' Bills with this committee is nine and we require money messages for four of them. It might be legislation of poor quality and legislation with which the Taoiseach does not necessarily agree, but why not say that? He is someone who answers directly. Why not just tell the committee that he will not issue a money message instead of having us wonder whether we will receive money messages for the four Bills? Whoever decides on money messages should make a decision. Tell us that the Bills are useless, that they are wrong and that a money message will not be issued. It appears that the House is clogged up with all of these Bills on which no one is making a decision. All I am asking for, without being critical of the Taoiseach or anyone who deals with money messages, is for a decision to be made to say "yes" or "no".
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