Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I am simply saying that the Taoiseach failed to reply to a written request from me for material. Now he tells us that we can ask questions on Committee Stage but that we will receive nothing else. He informed the House yesterday, during Question Time, that he was personally involved in discussion and co-ordination of all economic matters at Cabinet. If he will not supply us with even basic information about his first major budget decision, then why should we believe him when he states that he will analyse everything and open it up to public scrutiny?

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