Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

The reason the Government has not made time available to discuss issues relating to FÁS is that we respect the procedures of this House and of the Committee of Public Accounts, which is our chosen instrument for the investigation of these matters and which is investigating them this morning. It would be highly undesirable to have a parallel debate in this House, when the board members of FÁS are making themselves accountable to the committee.

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