Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Committee on Budgetary Oversight published a report this month entitled An Overview of Comparative Parliamentary Engagement in the Budgetary Cycle. The report notes that despite some improvements that have been made since the previous financial crisis "parliamentary involvement in the budgetary cycle may still be suboptimal", which is code for terrible and it really is terrible. I want to hear from the Minister what plans he has in regard to enhancing the robustness of our parliamentary democracy and our parliamentary oversight in terms of how we allocate resources in this country.

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