There is always an election where I am concerned. I have several other matters to raise. One is the question of the damage that may have been done in the minds of people reading certain newspapers as to the non-secrecy of the ballot. Regulations would assure people of complete secrecy; legislation would not be necessary. Number three, I wish to raise the matter of the discriminatory allocation of time in RTE programmes in regard to the parties: one minute per candidate to Fianna Fáil, 0.83 minutes to each Fine Gael candidate and so forth, and no time to the rest of us. I should also like to raise a related matter, but not quite the same thing, the ban on the candidates in the European election from any coverage incidental to their non-election activities. This particularly relates to the candidature of Mr. T.J. Maher in the south and me in the north-west. Might I raise a further matter about there being no time whatsoever devoted to non-attached and independent candidates in so far as TV coverage is concerned? Since the Whips had a meeting——

The Deputy has given notice of these matters but he may not go on to debate them.

The Whips met and arranged all this and, that being so, it becomes a matter for the House and I wish to bring it to your attention. Also, I should like to know—this is a matter which may have been misunderstood—whether free money from the EEC is under the supervision of some Minister here. I want to raise that because of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply I received in regard to this matter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs a week ago. I should like to raise as a matter of urgency the promised inquiry into the future of the boatyards, particularly with reference to the intended redundancy date, 31 May.

I will communicate with the Deputy.