Committees
The Oireachtas has a number of joint committees that include members of both houses. There are currently thirteen of these (the first ten below are based on the ten select committees of the Dáil):
- Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- Joint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht
- Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
- Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
- Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
- Joint Committee on Health and Children
- Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions
- Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education
- Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
- Joint Committee on Administration
- Standing Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills
- Working Group of Committee Chairmen
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Famous quotes containing the word committees:
“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)