Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
1:15 pm
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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As Chairperson, I must try to remain impartial in respect of matters of this nature. However, I wish to state for the record that the agenda for this meeting was issued on Thursday last to every Member of the House. It was not possible to take an amendment to it today because if we had done so, the meeting would, by default, have had to be suspended as a result of the requirement to issue notification to members. The position of public servants and their unions on the Croke Park II proposals was well established by Wednesday afternoon last.
Certainly, it was known by Thursday and if any Opposition party or member of the committee, or any member of Government for that matter, wished to put an amendment or notice to the Chair for consideration, it may have been taken on board. However, for the record, there was no notification whatsoever from the Technical Group, Fianna Fáil or Sinn Féin with regard to the business to be conducted today or any suggestion of alternatives prior to the commencement of this meeting at 1 p.m.