Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a valid point but if this committee does not deal with the Moorhead report, no other committee will. I speak as a former city councillor. Genuinely, it is the weakest link in our democracy that we have people democratically elected to represent their communities who are massively undermined and under-resourced to do the job properly. I think we need to do it. Covid could be our friend. We will have a shorter meeting and only the committee members will be probably entitled to speak. As a committee, we need to bring the Minister of State in and talk to him about this. Moorhead wrote the report but the Minister of State will make the decision.