Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

As I told the Taoiseach yesterday, the House should have an opportunity to discuss that draft programme of budget details that was sent to the German Parliament. We should have been allowed the opportunity to ask questions on how it got to the German parliamentarians before it was debated properly in this House. The Minister should have explained it to the House and taken questions on that specific item. That should have happened and the Taoiseach should have volunteered it. It has now taken five days to get the documentation placed in the Oireachtas Library. When I requested that yesterday, the Taoiseach said only that he would consider it and did not have the grace to say he would do that which seemed the obvious course of action. I am surprised we have not had the opportunity to have that discussion in the House.

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