Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I hear what the Taoiseach says but Members from his party are being given answers to questions. Other Members of the House, elected in the same way as all of us are, must resort to freedom of information requests because they do not get information from certain Departments due to the industrial dispute.

In the interests of having everybody in the House treated equally in terms of the information they receive, will the position be that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey or the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, will treat parliamentary questions as requests from Ministers to their Departments? Such requests are being answered in full and Ministers are being given full briefings regarding information they need. They were elected in the same way as every other Deputy. It is not good enough that certain Deputies of the Taoiseach's party get answers to parliamentary questions and other Deputies do not.

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