Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)

I would like to think the provision would never need to be utilised and that the Houses of the Oireachtas and any other body would be able to react sufficiently quickly to a commission request thereby avoiding the need for such borrowing. For example, an inquiry could take place at a time when, for one reason or another, the commission's budget was exhausted. We know the bureaucratic system. If the commission had to go through a system prior to an approval, it might be in a position where we would want it to borrow to ensure the inquiry would have continuity and could make a seamless investigation. Those are the circumstances in which I would envisage the need to borrow.