Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

All the calls for a debate on budgetary matters, the economy, the eurozone and so on are totally understandable. I agree we should have a debate on the ESRI report which shows that the growth rate will decline somewhat as opposed to other forecasts. To be honest, there is such a heavy legislative programme that it will be impossible to have such a debate, in particular in advance of next week's budget. We are up against it.