The Minister said that the Attorney General is considering the various options available to him. I understood the Minister to have said in this House four or five months ago that the Attorney General had completed his review, but we still appear to be in a position where we have not initiated any legal action ourselves. Further, the Minister keeps saying we have already taken legal action by virtue of the fact that we are involved in this Cattenom case. To what extent are we involved and how have we become involved? As I understand it, all we have done is submit our views to the court. The court need not take any notice of that. The major issue, Sellafield plant which has been in production for the past 30 years spewing radioactive waste material into the Irish Sea, is not being addressed from a legal point of view. The Cattenom plant has yet to come on stream.

This is the third time that we are having statements, rather than questions.

It is an unrelated matter.

The Deputy has a further question down for priority in relation to action under international agreements, the Paris Commission, for example, in relation to action that we are taking in the Sellafield case. As far as the Cattenom case is concerned, we have been out and have had a distinguished senior counsel represent us in the particular case, who has made the views of the Irish people known in relation to the activities of authorities. We have been heard. Our people were there in April.

Are we a party to that?

We are very much implicated in it.

Passive witnesses.

I must come to deal with questions nominated for priority. I call No. 48 in the name of Deputy Richard Bruton.