Seanad debates

Thursday, 17 October 2002

Parliamentary Committees: Motions.

 

I do not wish to block this motion today but I ask the Leader or a committee of the House or the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to talk to the Members of the other House. It is a certainty about the Dáil that in terms of looking after its own business, it needs minding. They cannot be let out on their own and that is the truth. I can guarantee that this was done by a committee clerk somewhere. I will stake my reputation on it. I am long enough around the Houses to know how these things happen. It was the Members of the other House who allowed the post office to be closed. They were the people who allowed themselves to be restricted in the number of visitors they could bring in at any one time, simply because the Superintendent of the day stepped into the Committee on Procedure and Privileges and put it in at the bottom of the agenda under Any Other Business. These things happen unnoticed.

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