Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When I was reviewing the proceedings of the meeting itself, it became abundantly clear that it was not the case that we were outside our remit. I do not want to give the impression that it was. I used to be a member of the Committee on Justice and Equality, and I remember that a common phrase used at its meetings was that it was not a catch-all for everything. The justice committee gets almost as much business as the Committee of Public Accounts. Now that I am a member of the latter, I recognise that it gets everything and that the justice committee is second. I just wanted to put on the record that-----