Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Senator Coghlan referred to CIE services and requested that the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, come to the House to discuss the position on State assets.

All of us will watch developments at the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service today. I hope our colleagues from this House who have now been released to attend the meeting will make a good contribution and that we will have the benefit of their input to the debate on the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill next week.