Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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On a separate issue, notwithstanding the 13 individual personalities and views of committee members, in order to ensure the committee's approach to its work is as cohesive as possible, perhaps in the next session, in advance of meetings, each member could be tasked with selecting and dealing with one or two of the suggested questions listed in the briefing provided by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. If, for example, there were ten questions, the lead questioner would deal with three of them and each other member would deal with one. This would not affect the integrity of members' individual contributions but it would ensure a level of cohesion. In addition, it would not take up a huge amount of each member's speaking time. I think this process would serve us well. It served the banking inquiry well after a very disjointed start. From the point of view of both the secretariat and the committee, it would be very useful.