Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and the Government is entitled to put forward its policy. There has been a lot of talk about delivery and outputs. Let us not reinvent the wheel. We have the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, which regularly reports to this sectoral committee. We can fall into the trap of thinking that we can contribute to policy but we not going to write it. Members have political agendas.

The Government has political agendas. We need to support that as much as we can. We need to ask the odd question as well about how it is going. I think a lot of this will all fall into place.

I have a final ask before I conclude. There is an extensive and rich archive of reports and material that has been gathered up by this committee over the past three to four years but when I went to look at it today I saw it was closed down. The one thing we should ensure is that new members would have access to the rich archive of reports, statements and everything else because there is a significant amount of valuable information. I would like a link to be sent to everyone in the coming days because a lot of information is there and it is a question of us picking up the ball again and running with it. In terms of a successor to Rebuilding Ireland, we must work around the programme for Government and its priorities. We are not the Government. We are not the Cabinet. We are not the policymakers. We can contribute, highlight and shine a light on issues that are important and we can prioritise and get Ministers in before the committee. I think it will all fall into place as we go along.