2017
DOI: 10.1515/admin-2017-0015
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The effect of parliamentary reforms (2011–16) on the Oireachtas committee system

Abstract: The literature on parliament identifies many factors which facilitate or impede parliamentary committees in their quest to scrutinise legislation and to oversee and hold government to account, including the formal powers assigned to them, political factors associated with the make-up of parliament, structural factors associated with parliamentary tradition, and the rules and procedure adopted by parliament. This article is concerned with how parliamentary rules and procedure can affect committees. It develops … Show more

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“…With reform, starting primarily in the 1990s and accelerating since 2011, something resembling a strong committee system is emerging in the Houses of the Oireachtas (see Lynch, 2017;Lynch & MacCarthaigh, 2023). Change has been driven by (i) procedural reform (within parliament), (ii) public sector reform within the civil service and (iii) legislative changes affecting the formal powers of committees.…”
Section: Gradual Development and Strengthening Of The Oireachtas Comm...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…With reform, starting primarily in the 1990s and accelerating since 2011, something resembling a strong committee system is emerging in the Houses of the Oireachtas (see Lynch, 2017;Lynch & MacCarthaigh, 2023). Change has been driven by (i) procedural reform (within parliament), (ii) public sector reform within the civil service and (iii) legislative changes affecting the formal powers of committees.…”
Section: Gradual Development and Strengthening Of The Oireachtas Comm...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A series of legislative and procedural reforms, all with similar intent but in reaction to different events, have since been implemented to further strengthen the committee system. Out of seven procedural factors deemed by the academic literature to enable strong committees, at least four existed by the thirty-second Dáil (Lynch, 2017), including:…”
Section: Gradual Development and Strengthening Of The Oireachtas Comm...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent decades, significant developments in the operation and role of committees in the Oireachtas are evident. These reforms, beginning in the 1980s, have seen an effective redesign of the Committee system on a number of occasions (Arkins 1988;Lynch 2017;Martin 2010).…”
Section: Parliamentary Politics In Ireland and Plsmentioning
confidence: 99%