Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

No. It made me reflect on the fact that if most of the questions that have been put to the Minister today were put in the form of a written parliamentary question, the Deputy would have received a letter from the Ceann Comhairle stating that the Minister has no responsibility in this area. I have raised this with the Minister previously. I think there is an issue with his Department's replies to parliamentary questions, particularly in respect of matters relating to An Garda Síochána. If Deputy Cahill submitted the very question he asked the Minister about Tralee courthouse as a parliamentary question, that same reply would have been given to him. I ask the Minister to reflect on that to see if there is something he can do to ensure Members of this House can follow up on what is the expenditure of public money, at the end of the day. That is our moral and legal obligation, in my view.

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