The public realises what is happening. It realises it has one of the most right wing and arrogant Governments this country has ever seen. It is also one of the most contemptuous in terms of how it treats not only the Houses of the Oireachtas but also the public. This is personified in the way the Minister for Finance and the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, who have a duty to be in the House today, have acted in a high-handed and contemptuous manner and gone to watch horse racing in the adjoining state. What could be more insulting to this House and the people than to have two Ministers, duly elected and appointed, act in such a cavalier and contemptuous way towards the public interest and the public good?