Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I wish to raise a number of matters on the Order of Business. Is it true that neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste will be in the House tomorrow? I have only been told this in the last half hour. The Taoiseach has answered questions on a number of occasions in the past about freedom of information. He made it clear that the political process has no input into the answers given under freedom of information requests. However, an hour ago, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in response to a question from Deputy Jim O'Keeffe, said that if the matter at hand is one of public comment or of concern to his Department, not only will he see it he will also have the opportunity to put it out the back door if he so wishes.

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