Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, and express my appreciation to the Leader of the House for providing time today to debate the Forfás consumer pricing report, 2003, a PricewaterhouseCoopers report to Forfás published in May. It is both current and excellent and I thank those who prepared it.

I wish to inform Senator Coghlan that I initiated this debate. To clarify, it was not initiated from the Fine Gael, Labour Party or Independent benches. We are prepared to face up to—