The House will resume on Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, which are being taken together.

I thank the Taoiseach for his responses to both sets of questions. Is it again the case that the Cabinet sub-committee on health, which also takes in responsibility for children, has met on 13 occasions since June 2007? Is the Taoiseach in a position to indicate the frequency of those meetings over the course of recent months as report after report unfolded regarding the very serious ill-treatment of young people placed by the State in institutional care over many decades? Will the Taoiseach indicate how recently that committee has met? Has it directly addressed the recommendations in the Monageer and Ryan reports? What further address of the recommendations will the Cabinet sub-committee undertake over the period ahead? Does the committee also address health policy? If this is the case, will it revisit the absolutely discredited private for profit co-location policy that the Minster for Health and Children — who is by the Taoiseach's side — has pressed over her tenure in office in recent years?

Matters that are privy to the Cabinet cannot be deliberated upon in the House.

I am constrained because it is a matter of record that one cannot engage in a detailed discussion about what goes on at Cabinet sub-committee meetings, no more than one can talk about what goes on at Cabinet until such time as decisions are taken and are communicated to the House and to the public.

Does the sub-committee address policy?

Sub-committees deal with various policy issues on an ongoing basis. This Cabinet sub-committee met in February, March, April and May this year. Issues such as Monageer can be dealt with generally at Cabinet meetings.