This suggests a sinister turn in politics and there has been a pattern in the Government's behaviour in this regard. It is whether it concerned Deputy Mick Wallace and the former Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter-----

Bully boy tactics.

-----or the hospital chief executive officers who wrote to the Government and subsequently saw details of pay in the media and the public domain.

We should get back to the Order of Business.

A hatchet job.

Now a Deputy from the Taoiseach's party who commented on the McNulty appointment-----

The Deputy is not listening. This is the Order of Business.

There are details on the front of a newspaper, but from where did they come? How did they get into the public domain? It is sinister.

The Deputy is really stretching it.

It is a very serious matter. Across society people are afraid to speak out against the Government.

It may be a serious matter, but it is not appropriate to the Order of Business. The Deputy had Leaders' Questions to air the issue.

In the health service, people are afraid to speak out.

The new SDLP.

The Minister of State should stop his trivial, infantile interjections. This is a serious matter.

There is nothing trivial about making accusations.

Deputy Martin, please.

It has been a tough day for the Deputy.

There should be an inquiry, as people want to be able to write to the Taoiseach's office with a degree of certainty that the issues would be confidential. It is a very sinister development.

The Deputy opposite should not cross him or he will get the bullet also.

Simon would not spend that kind of money on a ring.

There is an extra €35 million allocated for mental health services next year. The health insurance Bill is due to be published this session. Freedom of information requests to the Department of the Taoiseach and every other Department are handled completely independently by public servants. I never see the requests and have nothing to do with them. I reject completely any assertion of the deliberate leaking of any information from the Department of the Taoiseach.

Who leaked it then?

Therefore, a public servant leaked it in his or her own interests - my God.

We will not go there.

Blame the civil and public servants - appalling.

I want to be clear-----

The Taoiseach should check it out.

I would go back on that one, if I were him.

I did not know that Deputy Micheál Martin had become a private investigator.

Who leaked it?

We extended the freedom of information process.