Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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My view could be echoed by many Deputies whose staff are not based on the premises.

Let us consider the additional research staff and the Parliamentary Budget Office staff. I thank the Library and Research Service for giving me yesterday the research document I asked for a couple of weeks ago. How many staff are involved in research by comparison with the Parliamentary Budget Office staff? We regularly get very good updates from the Parliamentary Budget Office. The committees could do with some dedicated research resources across the board. I feel the Parliamentary Budget Office and the committee it works with have a very high level of research staff available. We see material emerging weekly or sometimes much more often whereas many of the committees could possibly do with a slice of that research facility. Could Mr. Finnegan talk to me about that.