Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----that the Minister for Finance had asked for a report to be compiled dealing with what he described as "legacy issues" in the building society in question. Has he received the report and when will it be laid before the House?

On a second matter, the Taoiseach wrote to me yesterday evening inviting me to meet with him after the Opposition parties have been briefed about budgetary matters. I will reply to his letter later today. On the information that is being provided to the Opposition parties, what arrangements will be made for departmental Estimates to be made available to the Opposition parties? It used to be the practice that the Estimates were published in advance of the budget - at one stage they were published a couple of months in advance. The Government changed this practice and for the past two or three years the Estimates have been published on budget day as an appendix to the Budget Statement. Will the departmental expenditure Estimates be published in advance of the budget this year? If not, what arrangements are being made to make the details of the Estimates available to the Opposition parties?

The third matter, which is not unrelated to the previous issue, is the environment (miscellaneous provisions) Bill, which is on the list to be published this session. Its purpose is to extend the landfill levy to include incineration. Is it the Government's intention to have the Bill enacted prior to the budget? Will revenues arising from the extension of the landfill levy to incinerators be included in the 2011 budgetary figures? What is the Government's estimate of the revenue that will arise from the levy for the purposes of the four year budget plan?

According to a report in one of today's newspapers, if the landfill levies are extended to incinerators, the operator of the Ringsend incinerator-----

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