asked the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the arrangements for the payment of the EMS interest subsidy.

Draft regulations providing for the interest subsidies are being examined at present in Brussels. These regulations, drawn up by the Commission, have been submitted to the Council for approval. They have also been transmitted to the European Parliament for an opinion.

Are they available to us at this stage? Are they in the Library?

Offhand, I cannot tell the Deputy whether they are available. I will inquire whether they are available in the House.

Will the Minister arrange that they be made available to this House if they are available to the European Parliament?

If it is open to me to make them available I shall do so.

The Minister is not, I trust, suggesting that material of this kind affecting this country can be made available to the European Parliament but not to Dáil Éireann?

I can only say that the regulations governing the disclosure of these documents, as the Deputy knows, are not made here. Subject to those regulations, if the draft is not available in this House I will make it available.

Agence Europe is usually available but not all Deputies can afford to subscribe to it.

It may be that they are already available. I am not saying that they are not available.