Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

On a supplementary question, this relates to the offer that President Van Rompuy made at that March meeting. The situation is that the European Council has said it would encourage the Government, as a national Government, to release that document. The Taoiseach has admitted the document is in existence yet he is refusing to release it. Any claim to transform freedom of information and make it better lacks credibility if the Taoiseach is not prepared, nine months on, to release that document and give the truth of what happened. All I am asking for is the document, the existence of which the Taoiseach has admitted. We have gone all over the houses to try to get a copy of it and many journalists have tried to get a copy of it. The Taoiseach has been very reticent and has been, if one likes, protecting the document from publication.

It is a ridiculous situation. The Taoiseach has not answered the question I have tabled. In the light of our experience, does the Taoiseach not agree that a document like that should be released to the public?

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