Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I support the request that we be given such a report. It is our duty to try to measure proposals from the Government, in this case a White Paper, especially given that we are expected to prepare for proposals in the budget when the Estimates are provided and also proposals for multi-annual funding. We cannot do that if we do not know the current progress on these far-reaching 88 recommendations. I do not agree with all of them, but they are far-reaching. At the very least, we should schedule one session, be it just before or just after the summer break, to allow the committee, hopefully, to influence the Minister's thoughts and those of the Government when proposing the budget, to ensure that the proposals are making progress rather than, as happened in the past, being stalled because they were sometimes an afterthought.

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