Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

This concerns promised legislation and the business of the House. The Departments of Health and Children and Enterprise, Trade and Employment and, more recently, Transport, have crept into the area of repeated refusals to answer questions. A problem that has emerged in recent weeks is that, because of a lack of accountability to this House, certain embarrassing issues have arisen, precisely because there was no plan or attempt by different Ministers to answer the question. There was, in fact, a complete refusal.

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