Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Section 9(4) provides that, as soon as practical after receiving the board's report, the Minister shall cause copies of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas. My understanding is that the mechanism of asking somebody to come into the Houses is one for the Houses themselves. I assure the Senator, however, that having laid the report it would be a foolish Minister who would allow a debate without affording himself or herself the right to reply if invited to do so.