Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach has not answered the question. The Taoiseach was informed. He regards the Minister as having behaved properly and having dealt with the matter in a proper way. As the Government has strangled the Freedom of Information Act, will the Taoiseach inform the House what was the threat to our democracy? Will he say what organisation was threatening the security of our State? I ask him to tell the House these facts. It should not be necessary for a Minister, particularly the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, to deliberately leak information to a sole journalist about a matter of public concern. This is a matter for a press conference if necessary rather than having it leaked in the way it was.

Why has there not been a discussion in the House about the antics or the charges and concerns expressed about Mr. Phil Flynn? We are now to have a debate in the House about a named individual. If any Member of the House names an individual in the House, the Ceann Comhairle will prevent them from speaking out, yet the House is to have a Government-sponsored debate about this matter which I acknowledge is important but such a debate should have taken place before this debacle occurred.

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