Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Yesterday my colleague, Deputy O'Sullivan, tabled a question to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment asking when this report would be published and for details of it to be given to the House. The Minister replied that he expected the report to be published in the coming weeks. The details of that report are in today's edition of The Irish Times. That is a grave disservice to the House and an insult to it. Repeatedly the Government makes announcements outside the Houses but it was brazen to tell a Member during Question Time that a report would be published in the coming weeks and then leak its contents to a national newspaper. It is something I am asking you, Sir, to voice a view on; otherwise, this House will be entirely irrelevant.

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