Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is much interdepartmental work and communication related to climate change. Does Mr. Collins not see the committee as part of that process or recognise a responsibility to talk to us? The committee does not figure in that so the Departments are working away. I am not saying that they are not doing work or that it is not useful work. The problem for us as a committee is that we cannot get access to anything. Perhaps we are talking to the wrong people and we should work away independently to devise our own measures. Do we fit into and factor into the process, or are we a source of annoyance in making the witnesses attend today? The impression I got from departmental officials who attended previously during the process of us drawing up our report is that they did not want to know about it. Where do we fit into the process?