Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

This issue must be addressed and I ask that it is debated in the House. Government has expanded radically over the past ten years. I am not just attacking the Government as it was as much applicable when the Fine Gael Party was in Government. The size of government and the apparatus around it has expanded rapidly, yet I do not know what half these people do. Much of it is based on parish pump politics of the worst type and electioneering for the next election. It does not give politics a good name. I hope this controversy will lead to a genuine debate on this issue.