Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I asked about the reason for the delay in the health sub-committee meeting and whether this means the programme's proposal will be delayed. The hospitals' funding model is a substantive issue.

Turning to Question No. 5, the Government has made much of the Economic Management Council, so much so that many Government briefers, including the Labour Party's briefers, have stated that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, is jealous of its members because he cannot get on it.

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