Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes. The only committee that this will restrict is the Committee of Public Accounts. Our hands will be tied behind our backs in situations that are already arising, as was predicted. I suggest that we meet the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA. Let us face it, there can be a lot of jostling and tussling when people from different political parties and none are involved but on this issue, unless we are at one, we will get nowhere. Committee members from all sides of the House need to be on the same page.