Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

That is not much progress. The tax strategy group papers on next year's finance Bill have not been published. It would be normal for at least some of them to have been published by now. When will the Government have them published? The annual pay and pensions booklet, which would normally have been published by the Department of Finance by now, has not been published. Is there a reason for withholding the publication of these items? Even after our little bout of arithmetic this morning, it is difficult to make sense of the figures without the documents' publication.

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