Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is a good day's work if the logjam is brought to an end in terms of public accountability for funds provided to section 38 and 39 agencies, which currently cannot be obtained by anyone in the Oireachtas, including the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Health and Children, because they are not the people who receive the money voted through the Houses. In due course, when the changes are implemented we will be able to access information from all of those bodies through FOI, and obtain all the information we have not been able to get heretofore. That is progress. We should publicise the changes, which are good. I tabled a number of amendments, which are grouped together. Do I have time to speak on them?

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