I am glad the Taoiseach has become serious again.

Order.

Does the Taoiseach agree with reference to the Tánaiste and Minister for the Environment and the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment that there is a clash of interests in the fact that they have——

We have gone wide of the original question.

No, the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment is included in the reply.

He is not.

Has he resigned?

No. He was not a member of a local authority. The Deputy should do his homework.

The deputy leader of the Government is on a local authority.

Does the Taoiseach agree that he should remain on that local authority? Secondly, will he renew the request which he made to these Ministers in the interests of paying attention to their portfolios and ask them now to resign from their local authorities?

The Chair feels that this question clearly deals with Ministers of State. There was a question down very recently about Ministers.

I think there is some trouble in the Labour Party.

I am sorry the Deputy who put down the question is not here and has not asked a question. He is a Deputy who as a Minister remained a member of the Galway County Council for ten months following his appointment to the Cabinet.