Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

-----there must be a system of checks and balances because the position is only as good as the individual in it, and the body must keep a hold on that individual, so to speak.

The most important aspect to arise out of this report is the need to have a public interest body to which confidential information can be given and that will have teeth, and that those of us in this House should examine reforming our committee system, and I do not mean the optics of reform. Committees can work independently and whether one is a Government or an Opposition Member they can prosecute the Government in the public interest and not in self-interest.

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