Plan to slash number of Dáil committees

THE number of Oireachtas committees should be slashed according to proposals currently with the Department of Finance.

The body responsible for running the Dáil and Seanad, the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, proposes reducing the number from 21 to 15.

This would lead to a corresponding reduction in the 63 positions attached the committees, which pay e30,000-a-year.