Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want my point to get lost. Those decisions have been taken. I am not looking to reopen them. I am saying that where the level of Oireachtas committee engagement is set out in legislation or by way of regulation, that would ensure that it happens. Where it is not set out, it is at the discretion of a committee, the Government or the composition of forces in the Oireachtas. Irrespective of where one stood on the amicable disagreement that we had previously, some of this should be specified more. That is clearly not an attempt to convince the Minister of State to support this terribly excessive amendment, as he called it, but we should have something better than we have at the moment.