Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

It is a waste of money. There is no problem with people accepting the principle of what the Minister is doing, but if we end up with more publications that require larger bins we will soon need four or five bins in each room in Leinster House to hold all the material we receive. Will the Minister carry the cudgel for us on this issue and go back to the Cabinet table and tell them we want no more of this? Let us examine what we are doing and how we are doing it.

We get a list of accessions from the Library every month and a list of reports and that is fine. We can ring the Department or relevant bodies to get any reports we need. This would save a significant amount of money. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht éisteacht liom agus leis na Teachtaí eile ar an taobh seo.

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