John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is unusual for me to contribute to a debate on Report Stage when I am not on the committee but I have listened to this debate for some time and I wonder if common sense has gone out the window altogether. We are proposing the establishment of a commission with 17 people. I think most right-minded people in this House do not believe that is an efficient commission or that it represents best value for money. I believe the Minister finds himself in a very awkward position in that this is the pet project of the man who sat beside him last week when Report Stage was in the House, the Minister, Deputy Ross.

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