Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the findings of the sub-committee on Dáil reform and agree with others that Dáil reform is overdue. The uncertainty of the Thirty-second Dáil has probably led to the reforms about which we are talking. I congratulate those who were on the committee and there are certainly a lot of positive things in the report. There are a lot of questions on the document and how it is going to roll out. Most of the specific reforms have been debated already and I share the views of my colleagues, Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Aengus Ó Snodaigh, who were on the committee.

This is my third term in the Dáil and I have experience in having attended Whips' meetings. I congratulate the new Whip on her appointment and I know how the Whips office works. At some meetings, anything the Government put forward the Government got and there was no meeting of minds but with the reforms that will have to change.

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