Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Does that mean, for instance, that if Fáilte Ireland brings the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism to some function in France or Italy, that it will show up in its report and that of the Department? Will hospitality extended by an agency to a Minister be made public? I understand that there is no intention to cover it up but it is necessary that everybody be perfectly aware of it from the reports of the agency and of the Minister's Department. This should be absolutely above board and everybody should understand it. One does not want a situation to arise in which someone knows that a Minister was in America or wherever, but the trip is reported only in the accounts of the semi-State agency. I hope that the structures being put in place under the former Secretary General with responsibility for the public service will ensure that happens. If a Minister travels at the invitation of a semi-State body or agency to do business for the country, everybody should understand the nature of that travel and a record of it should be available for all to see. Everybody understands that is what it was, as it is there for all to see. Will those changed structures bring about that situation?

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