(Cavan-Monaghan): Well, I admire the Chair's courage. This might also be ruled out of order but might I ask the Minister, through the House, if he, as a member of the Government, is aware that a register of houses is being compiled because the Minister for Economic Planning and Development is on record as having said that such a register is being compiled——

That is a matter for a separate Minister.

(Cavan-Monaghan): ——and the Minister for the Environment is on record as saying that no such register is being compiled?

I think the Deputy misquoted me. I am on record as not ruling out such a possibility.

(Cavan-Monaghan): Well, if those two Ministers cannot decide on it who better to sort it out than the Tánaiste.

That is a separate statement.

I must say I do not like the device of getting over the purport of the original question by asking questions which are not remotely associated; it is not in the interests of good order.

(Cavan-Monaghan): Since that is a reflection on me, sir, I would respectfully say that I agree with the Chair's ruling in reply to my first supplementary question, and I leave it to the House.