Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Will this be a total revision of the programme for Government? I noticed that the Taoiseach was talking about revising the economic assumptions which underlay the programme, including the assumption of 4.5% growth which was the basis of the programme. Therefore will there be a total revision or does it only concern those aspects of the programme that arise from the changed economic circumstances that will the subject of revision? Has there been any exchange of papers by any of the parties in Government in respect of a revision of the programme? What is the status of the programme vis-À-vis Mr. McCarthy's an bord snip nua? Does the Taoiseach expect that the report of that body will comment on the commitments in the programme for Government? In respect of the arrangements that were made with Independent Deputies - which the latter say they have in writing and which relate to commitments on public expenditure, but which were never published - was the McCarthy group given access to the written documents the Independent Deputies claim they made with the Government in respect of certain expenditure items?

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