Brendan Ryan (Labour)

First, I would like to ask the Leader about the first two matters. While I have no great objection to them, I do not know enough about them, which is the point I wish to make. Motions are introduced, referred to a committee and brought back having been discussed by it. However, there is no mechanism of which I am aware whereby I or any other Member of this House can find out what the committee thought, said or did about them. I have no problem with the committees but surely the Houses of the Oireachtas ought to know what is happening about all these matters. I ask the Leader to indicate a method.

The Government may celebrate this but many on this side of the House will not: we have reached an historic moment, for the average price of a new house is now €250,000. If ever there was a measure of Government failure, it is the decision, either deliberate or taken through ineptitude, to price a huge number of working families out of the housing market, or else impose on them a heavy burden of debt. It is worth mentioning today that we have now reached an historic moment regarding the average price of a new house.

As nobody else seems to have raised it, I ask the Leader, a formidable person in her own right, to find out what exactly went on between Mr. Justice Feargus Flood and the Government. For example, is the correspondence that was published yesterday all the correspondence? The Government has filleted the Freedom of Information Act so we will only know what it chooses to give us. That is a fact. Is that all the correspondence?

(Interruptions).