Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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For the record, committees of these Houses, and I sit on a number of them, do not accept it when external witnesses come before them without submitting copies of their opening remarks beforehand. Ministers of this House should have the courtesy to provide their opening remarks so that they can be scrutinised and we can get the best out of the meeting. For the Minister to circulate his opening remarks two minutes after the start of this meeting is not just acceptable. It is not just the Minister for Finance, Deputy Chambers; I understand that the opening remarks from the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, have not been circulated either.