Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The intention will always be that information should be available to every Deputy, regardless of what side of the House he or she sits on. That is what we would like to see and there has been no instruction to the contrary from Government that the situation should be any other way. If industrial relations issues arise that is unfortunate but this is not at our instigation, or of our making. We wish to convey to everybody that we would like to see the level of information being sought in the normal way by Deputies being made available, no matter what industrial relations issues arise.

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