Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is fair enough. The previous speaker asked a question that is not on the agenda of the ECOFIN meeting and the Minister answered him in saying that it is not on the ECOFIN meeting but there is a second meeting, which is the Eurogroup meeting at which country specific issues are dealt with. The Minister then went on to answer the question. If he wants to stonewall me on the retroactive recapitalisation of Irish banks, that would be fair enough, but he must be fair to speakers from Opposition parties who have an entitlement to put questions. If the Minister is going to take a position at this finance committee that he will deal only with agenda items of ECOFIN, then he needs to be consistent in responding to other political parties and those who are not members of political parties on that matter. The Minister has given the view that it is possible to ask questions on the second meeting that will take place this week. It has been the norm for the Minister to answer questions on Eurogroup as well. If he taking that approach with me, that is fair enough.