Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I have a couple of matters to pursue with the Tánaiste. I want to return to the issue on which she responded to Deputy Kenny about the transfer of the information by the HSE in relation to the children who died in State care. Did I understand her correctly to say it is now the position that the HSE will transfer the information and legislation is not required? If that is the position, how was this not established before the Government took its position last Tuesday to the effect that legislation was required? What has caused the change of heart and where stands the legal objection the HSE raised to the transfer of the information?

Regarding her reply in respect of providing protection for people who are running into difficulties with their mortgages because of the recession, the Tánaiste said the Government working group on this will report by the end of June. For more than two years the Labour Party has been seeking a home protection scheme to provide protection for people-----

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