Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I refer to the new politics document of some months ago which contained fairly strong commitments to significantly reducing the size of the Department of the Taoiseach and also to increasing accountability. We are looking at downsizing and to a certain extent what we perceive to be a reduction of accountability of the Department of the Taoiseach. I dealt with this matter last week with regard to the establishment of the Cabinet sub-committees. The Fine Gael new politics document said that the Department of the Taoiseach would be converted into a Cabinet office-----

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