Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Deputy Adams is learning very fast. He raised the Special Olympic Games, water metering, the universal social charge, junior doctors and his party's Private Members' motion in the context of a question that relates to the distribution of a formal review of the implementation of the programme for Government. I have already pointed out that every Minister will post these results - details of the extent to which the targets they set themselves, and are bound by under the programme for Government, are being achieved - on the website of his or her Department. The question of the universal social charge has been referred to by the Minister for Finance. The programme for Government commits the Government to reviewing the charge before the 2012 budget. The Minister for Finance has said it will be a very difficult budget. The medical and hospital situation will be discussed when the House considers the Sinn Féin Private Members' motion this evening. An amendment to that motion, setting out the Government's concerns, will be proposed by the Minister for Health. On the matter of metering, the question of the payment one will have to make in respect of one's usage of water after one's free allowance has been used is being and will be dealt with by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

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