Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes. We have a plan that has significant implications for the country that was never discussed in the Dáil but which then it is sold by way of spin. In my own city, the Taoiseach was going to the university to spin it. It is interesting that it was not to use the university to question. None of this was used for the newspapers to question the document, to say what was good and bad. It was to spin the document. If there is not a crisis there for democracy, I do not know where there is a crisis. There was Government money to spin a story. It is very serious not to use our third level institutions to question but to use the media to spin.

My last question, because the Chair is looking at me, is on housing and Mr. Fraser's opening statement. What role has the Department of the Taoiseach in housing? Mr. Fraser's opening statement refers to it.