Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

It must be the jet lag that is getting to me. Pobal is funded by the Department and it operates independently on a day-to-day basis. On certain days of the week, it is the Labour Party's favourite policy that people should operate independently of the Department.

Pobal established a review group that claimed in autumn 2005 that it will publish a report in spring 2006. Now, it claims it will publish it in the mid-year. The end of spring and mid-year are not far apart. The Deputy then asks me to hold them to that. Since I did not commission the report, it is not so simple. Deputy O'Shea is always laying down good practices for me to follow, one of which is I should lay down policy. However, I cannot become involved in the day-to-day management of the agency. Deputy English asked the Minister of State to drive the drugs strategy, yet the Opposition go mad with the Government for introducing legislation to ensure control over——

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