Appropriation Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-17
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF), Dublin South-Central

When committees are formed, they are specifically informed of what Vote they are responsible for. This Vote does not appear in any of the committees' remits. That is the problem. The Minister or whoever else can say the Minister has no responsibility to the Dáil on this matter, and that is correct, but Ministers also have no responsibility to any committee on this matter and, technically, no committee can take on this issue because it is one of those strange ones. In some ways, it has to go to Cabinet or somebody else has to raise the flag about it. It is a minor issue if we need to have a fund, slush fund or whatever else to assist. The security of the State is not dependent on €2 million, so it is in some ways meaningless if that is what it is. I will leave it at that but I hope I will not be arguing with the Minister in the last days before Christmas next year. However, I will continue to do this until, at some stage, some oversight is had beyond a Minister nodding to the Comptroller and Auditor General saying, "Everything is fine, don't worry about it. I have no receipts but that is the way it is."

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Sitting date: 2025-12-17