Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The Taoiseach very graciously gave the Opposition an invitation to submit questions on material for the forthcoming budget to the Department of Finance. We submitted our questions last Friday but have heard nothing since and the Government is going away for ten days. Is the information in the post? Is there any timeline on when we might get it?

The information concerns fundamental issues such as the capital programme. In discussions with the Department of Finance, the Opposition was informed that of the €8 billion in the capital programme for this year——

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