Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am asking that the Minister for Health and Children update the House on what is happening with regard to that unit.

I wish to raise a second matter. I have been reading in the newspapers over the past couple of days and hearing media reports that the Cabinet decided on Tuesday that the Department of Finance would provide each of the Opposition parties with factual information on the economic and budgetary parameters to assist in the formulation of budgetary plans by the Opposition parties. I have been reading that the Department of Finance will be writing to the Opposition parties to inform us of these arrangements. The Labour Party has not yet received any correspondence from the Department of Finance with regard to this matter and I believe it is the same in respect of Fine Gael. I am not making an issue of this because I presume the correspondence is in the post, other than to make the point-----

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