May I ask the Tánaiste if the eight meetings he mentioned were of the full committee or simply of particular groups or sections of the social partners? Would he not agree that because the programme covered a very wide range of social and economic issues, was a major agreement and was debated and approved by this House, it would be in order for the House now to review progress under this programme?

This can be mooted by the joint committee of the Government and ICTU at the next meeting and what Deputy De Rossa has said can be brought to the attention of that meeting. I might say that Congress are having a full meeting with President Delors on the occasion of his visit here on Friday so that the utmost co-operation is maintained between Congress and the Government and between the Government, Congress and the European Commission. Excellent progress has been made along these lines. That is the way it is. We hope to keep it that way, enhance the contribution and ensure that a national understanding of this kind, which has been established, will become an integral part of the State's whole economic and social planning in the future.

Might I ask that the Tánaiste give the House information as to how many of the meetings to which he referred were with all of the social partners and how many were with individual social partners; how many were with the social partners meeting together and how many were with individual social partners? He was asked that question rather specifically.

That was not contained in the question but I can get the information for Deputies Higgins and De Rossa and furnish it in writing to them.