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‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits. Parliamentary questions on individual cases
Summary
A Deputy asked the Chair to review the time spent answering detailed case questions; the Chair agreed to examine the matter, while another Deputy defended the right to ask them.
It must be embarrassing for the Deputy to hear questions being answered by the Minister that applicants have already been notified. Could this whole matter be referred to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges because it is wrong to have a situation where a Deputy can ask all these questions? Any of the agencies involved would have answered these questions. Three-quarters of an hour was taken up with answering them here.
