Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----that the Labour Party has been writing to the Department of Finance since last April seeking this facility. My colleague, Deputy Joan Burton, has been raising the issue over a period of time about the type of information that Opposition parties need from the Department of Finance in order to address this issue.

On that matter also, will the Tánaiste acknowledge, on behalf of the Government, that when the Government agreed with the European Commission the target for the reduction of Ireland's deficit to 3% by 2014, that the Labour Party and indeed, Fine Gael, voluntarily accepted that target and we have continued to accept it? Second, will she acknowledge that of course political parties may differ on how it is to be achieved and this is a matter for resolution in the normal-----

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