Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

I hope the Minister is right and that this issue will not arise. The Minister for Finance has so many functions that there could well be a citizen who has a particular bone to pick with the Department of Finance and does not know whose function it is. This matter would resolve itself if our earlier amendment - discussed when the Minister was not in the House - had been accepted. It sought a report to the Oireachtas listing the functions of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his delegated powers. He has promised a further explanatory memorandum. That should have been provided on Monday once the Bill had completed Committee Stage in the Dáil. There is provision that, if a Bill is amended substantially on Committee Stage, the explanatory memorandum can be reviewed. It would certainly be of assistance to us now. Has the provision in the 1939 Act ever been exercised by a Taoiseach?