Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is not what the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has proposed. What the Taoiseach has just outlined now is an entirely different process, whereby we would have a meeting to run a ruler over the information with which we have been provided from the Department of Finance and understand that we all have the same information. That is an information-sharing exercise. I will ignore the Taoiseach's temptation to resort to partisanship but the second part of his reply noted that the Government has a duty to discharge even if we cannot reach agreement.

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