Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

So I gather. I referred earlier to the desirability that we should meet next week to hear the Taoiseach's report from the EU summit. The Dáil is not sitting next week so we will not have the opportunity to do that in the House. When he returns from the summit next week, will the Taoiseach circulate the statement he would normally make in the House so we would at least be in a position to make public comment on the outcome of the summit and the Taoiseach's assessment of it? It is not desirable that there would be no opportunity to comment on what the Taoiseach has to say about the summit until the middle of January. Given the House is not sitting, I ask that at least the Taoiseach's statement would be circulated.

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