Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

I also welcome the benefit the Solheim Cup brought to Ireland at the weekend and particularly to County Meath. There was a significant tourism spin-off in the county as a number of hoteliers have confirmed to me. It was wonderful to see it being such a success.

I am calling for an investigation into the leaking of a private social welfare file to a Labour Party Senator as reported in today's newspapers. The investigation could be carried out by the Data Protection Commissioner or the Garda. There seems to be an agenda in the Labour Party to denigrate persons on social welfare. It started with the Minister for Social Protection talking about it being a lifestyle choice. We were told that one in four lone parents were making fraudulent claims when it was one in four claims that were investigated. Senator Harte has information on a case that seems to be totally wrong, with figures that are all over the place. It seems there are seven children, 1.5 guardians, two severely disabled people in the house and the family was not granted a council house. It is a very strange case which, if true, merits a full investigation, as it relates to the private file of identifiable individuals. The Senator is talking about an individual family in which two people are disabled, four children-----