Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

If, as now seems probable, the House establishes a special committee for this purpose, will the Taoiseach give a commitment to the House that the Government will bring forward legislation as early as possible to restore the power of inquiry by parliamentary committee, where appropriate, that whatever trimming we must do as a result of the Abbeylara judgment will be done and that what was a meaningful role for Parliament, as distinct from Government, will be restored to the Houses of the Oireachtas and especially to this House?

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