Seanad debates
Thursday, 24 October 2002
Sub-committee of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges: Motion (Resumed).
There should be a form of question time on a regular basis. We could start by giving Members of the Seanad the right to ask written questions and secure the same service that Members of the Dáil receive, even if we do not reach the formal stage of oral questions because, in my experience, only a few are reached. It is an anomaly that if I want information about something from a Government Department by way of a parliamentary question, I must get a colleague in the Dáil to table it. It should be possible to do that without too many changes.
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