Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I went to the meeting of chairmen last Christmas. I do not usually go to those meetings because I find the bureaucracy in this place quite painful. I went to the meeting just to see what it was like. It was a complete waste of time. There was another meeting yesterday which also turned out to be a complete waste of time. The only way to break the logjam is by the Government taking the initiative. I will just say that much.