Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I suppose. We in the Oireachtas repeatedly get calls for commissions of inquiry and commissions of investigation. That is very much a failure of existing bodies that should be doing this work habitually and regularly. If one were to count all the commissions of inquiry we are being asked to set up, the costs would be enormous but all those costs are resources that are taken from somewhere else. I find in childcare and children I am worried about what resources we are making available to the child at risk today. There is a balance somewhere along the line. I do not have all the answers on that but I share that as this is the right forum in which to do so.