Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----but it has question time and it can hold Ministers to account. I would much prefer to have Ministers come to this House to be held to account as well. There are issues that the Manning report addressed that we can implement and we should do so perhaps. Senator McDowell said we are not petty people. We are not but there is a view that some elected to this House on the vocational panels are lesser beings. Many of us in this House, and many who have left it and the other House, have made very fine contributions to public life.