Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I accept that, a Chathaoirligh. I promise I will put the question, not to you or to the House, but to the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, when I see him.

The issue is that we protect the division between ourselves and the Legislature, as we regularly do in this House. There is also a division between ourselves and the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a job to do. It serves our needs and the needs of the people in a particularly special way. Civil servants are in the middle and they need to stay in the middle. We need to respect that and ensure we endorse the position that the civil servant concerned has taken on this occasion. I will not have a go at the Minister of State until I see him in person.