Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In this new era of the Government being willing to answer questions, I ask the Taoiseach, in his new role as Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, to answer a question I was not allowed to ask last week as to whether he agrees with the criticism of the Department of Justice and Equality by the IDA in regard to the interception of postal packets and telecommunications messages (regulation) (amendment) Bill? My question on that issue was transferred to the Department of Justice and Equality, which is the last Department I wanted to answer it. I failed to get an answer from the then Minister for Business, Enterprise and Employment, Deputy Fitzgerald, as to whether she agreed with the IDA. Will the Taoiseach and interim Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation commit to answering my question because it is a critical issue, as Deputy Wallace has said? I am being witty about it but the problem is that I was not able to get an answer to a key question regarding digital rights and rules which are critical for the country and, rather, the question was shunted back to the Department of Justice and Equality. Will the Taoiseach answer that question in substantive written form?

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