Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have the utmost respect for the multiple, competing pressures of all my colleagues around this table. I appreciate that and know the many duties of each of the committee members.

I am committed to resolving this in an orderly way. I am not going to walk out of this committee and create an expectation with the Chairman that this can be done in a minute. That is not the case. The challenge relates to the Committee of Public Accounts and the Chairman, as a previous Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, knows the particular status of that committee. It wants to see my Department. This committee wants to see my Department. The Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health is speaking in similar tones about my Department. There is one other committee that wants to do the same. Given that we have Estimates here in front of this committee that deal with funding, for example, for the Revenue Commissioners for an extraordinary event that will have huge consequences for our country in a couple of weeks time, I hope that my commitment to try to resolve this will facilitate the passage of these Estimates here this morning. I will work with the chairman to resolve the matter if that is not the case.