Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

So why not publish them anyway and take that step? What I am going to do separately is write to the clerk to the committee and highlight where it is working really well, which bodies are publishing it and the format they are publishing in. I have seen State bodies publishing PDFs and if I go to try to scrape data off a PDF, good luck to me. What is really good is if the body publishes the CSV in a particular format. I have written to all State bodies to do this and we have seen fantastic results with them now publishing it in CSV, publishing it online and it is working well. If the commission could look at that, first, to see if there is a requirement and, second, to see if it is of benefit to do it. If not, there might be a way to consider adopting it because it would be really good.

I do not have any other questions at this point. I was wrong about the idea of the workers potentially coming together and bidding for the contract. That is out the window. I know the officials are in a tough position and are constrained but I feel like the workers need the support. They need to know there is support and respect for the work they are doing. That is where there is a breakdown here. Obviously, they want better conditions and to have a better, clearer path forward. I really hope there can be some work done there and resolution found.

I contacted the rest of the members of my party to see if there were any other issues they wanted me to raise and I got a lot of feedback. I am not going to go into it here but I might write to the commission with a few different proposals that would help the function of the place and help Members in their operations. I appreciate the officials being here today.