Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

On a point of order. Your interpretation, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, is wrong. It is not a matter for the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, it is a question of changing the Standing Orders of the House so that Ministers have to answer questions about quangos. We now have some 250 quangos. Ministers will not answer questions about them even though they are funded out of the public purse. That is the problem, Government by quango.

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