Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 June 2003
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Second Stage.
In other parliaments it is like the list in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Knowledge is divided into certain areas with a certain number of people working in each section, and they become the experts in that area. Whether it is environmental or justice legislation, one can ask these people to do the research and send out the information. The Minister should know they do not write speeches, or give a party political line, but they supply information and carry out research. That is the way it should work.
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