Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)

I will get down to business with some questions for the Leader. Will the Government publish the review of the capital programme and when will it be debated in this House? Last week An Bord Pleanála dealt with the final planning permission for Metro North, a real project that could create 6,000 jobs. Instead of listening to NewERA being bandied about left, right and centre, we could have a project with 6,000 starting jobs and 37,000 further jobs to be created therefrom. The Government gave a commitment to follow through on this matter. When will the House have an opportunity to debate the results of the spending review and when will the Government give the go-ahead to the project to which I refer?

Two weeks ago we engaged in a very good debate on the Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011 as it relates to the Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions and the granting of powers to negate the effects of the judgment in the Abbeylara case. We discussed at length some of the pitfalls and also how careful we must be to ensure people's good names are preserved. We were right to discuss that matter in such a measured way and, while I have a number of concerns, I was happy with the responses provided by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter. It is in this context that I must inquire about the national broadcaster, RTE, and what it was allowed do, through the medium of its "Prime Time" programme, to Fr. Kevin Reynolds.