Government consultation and recovery programme
Dukes asked whether new consultative machinery with the ICMSA and IFA departed from the process in the Programme for National Recovery, and challenged why his question had been transferred. Spring called this favouritism.
Since the Taoiseach has decided to answer this question from Deputy Spring, as indeed he should have, why did he then transfer to the Minister for Agriculture and Food a question I put down to him asking whether the consultative machinery that is being set up by the ICMSA and the IFA on the one hand and the Government on the other hand represents in any sense a departure from the process set out in the Programme for National Recovery?