Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

I welcome the progress in this area but have one key comment on it. Here we have agencies getting State money, but very much at arm's length from us, the elected representatives. While some of these agencies come in to committees and we have an opportunity to question them, not all of them do so. When we want information on a particular agency and put a question to the Minister, we are referred back to that agency. It is very difficult to track what is happening with them. The key point is that we need more direct access to and input from those agencies so we can see what is going on.

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