Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

I thank the Minister of State for attending. This Bill is short, just like the one we considered this morning. It provides enabling powers to the committee. Given that the Houses of the Oireachtas will have powers under the Constitution, I presume any committee of the House will have to get its own independent legal advice on the process. I assume some of the questions raised would also have to be clarified before the committee would assume its full investigative role concerning any issue regarding which it might be established to consider with a view to reporting back to the Houses. I thank the Minister of State for being very forthcoming in her answers.