Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

However, if I was on that side of the House again, I would like to be as effective as I possibly could be, which is the right of every Member of the House. Members of the House, including the three main Opposition spokespersons, have indicated strongly that the current NRA system with an Oireachtas liaison unit is not working. If a parliamentary question was the first device to try to elicit this information, it was a waste of time. However, Deputy Olivia Mitchell's point is that people have been putting this question to the NRA over a long period and have found it difficult to get the information. If parliamentary questions are being tabled as a result of frustration having failed to obtain rudimentary information from the NRA, we certainly have a problem for which I have some responsibility and accountability to the House.

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