Has the Minister in his office at present an adviser who was formerly a director of the Youth Employment Agency? Is another former director at present a member of the staff of the agency? How many staff from his Department are on secondment to the agency? How many were there, and how many have stayed on? How many have been recruited from outside the Department?

Question No. 25 asks the Minister for Labour, with regard to the Youth Employment Agency, if he will give full details of the type of office accommodation used by them and its cost. The question of the presence or otherwise of advisers in my office does not seem to arise.

I am trying to find out——

There are later questions about the staffing.

——what kind of money is being spent and what kind of empire is being built. That is what I am trying to establish.

If the Deputy put down a question on those lines, he would be on stronger ground.

The Chair has no idea how strong my ground is. The Minister's ground is not as strong.

26.