Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 June 2003
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Second Stage.
The functions assigned to the commission are set out succinctly and supplemented briefly in this Bill. I think it is sensible to do it in this way. Certain Deputies wanted to graft on to the Bill their own detailed agendas for the commission's existence, some of which had attractions. The fundamental approach taken by the Minister is that the commission must have the freedom to fix its own priorities so that it will not be trammelled in several years' time by the fashions of this year or decade.
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