Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I raise another issue, that is, the extraordinary fact that the Department of Health and Children, over six weeks, cannot tell a Member of the other House how many committees and commissions have been set up to look at various aspects of the health service. That is the first part. Perhaps the Leader can get the Department to do what it apparently cannot do itself.

Second, none of these committees and commissions has reported so far. Am I correct in assuming that none of them will report until after this obnoxious legislation is passed, in which case only the bits of the reports that suit the Government will ever be published? Is that what is going on?