Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

Waste must be eliminated, beginning in every Department. Ministers take a hands-off approach and do not even sit in at management committee meetings in their Departments. That is crazy and anyone who adopted that position in the private sector would not survive. Having failed to give such a commitment yesterday, will the Leader give a promise today that he will arrange a debate on the budgetary position, the four year plan and allied matters immediately the talks between the party leaders, in which we all have a vested interest and which we all hope will bear fruit, reach finality?