Fergal Browne (Fine Gael)

This debate on the ESRI report is premature because we do not yet have the full document. What we have seen so far contains good and bad news on which we should reflect. When we get the complete report we can examine it in greater detail and the Minister of State might return to the House when we have had more time to go through it. The reaction of the Government to the report, however, was laughable, as Minister after Minister queued up to rubbish the report and then the Taoiseach, in his normal style of leadership, undermined his Ministers by saying the report is not nonsense.