Functions vested in Departments cannot, under the Ministers and Secretaries Acts, be carried out under the direction of two different Ministers at the same time. With regard to two functions of Government, namely, the post office network and the national broadband service, what exactly is the Government's intention? Will statutory responsibility for those two programmes - post offices and broadband - be vested in the Department of communications, climate change and natural resources or the Department of rural development, rural affairs, arts and the Gaeltacht? If not, and if the Minister for communications, climate change and natural resources is to continue to be responsible for these matters, as I believe the Ministers and secretaries legislation requires him to be, what role then is envisaged for the Minister for rural development, rural affairs, arts and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Humphreys? Is she to exercise any authority under law or is she simply to have some sort of mock title with no resources, no staff, no Vote and no statutory responsibility for these issues?

I asked the Tánaiste last week about the second matter I want to raise, which is becoming more urgent. Will the Government produce a stability programme update, SPU? Will an SPU be submitted to the European Commission? This morning, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, commented on the April SPU, which the Taoiseach will recall was simply an "as you are" SPU devised by the outgoing Government, with no policy decisions because we could not make them. Increases in Estimates have been made to Departments, so if changes are to be made in the parameters of the budget, will an SPU be submitted, and when will we have sight of it? We do not know what the Estimates for this year are, although the SPU is devised to represent the parameters for next year's budget. If we are to have any input into the budgetary cycle for next year, we must have detailed debate on the budgetary proposals for this year. When will those Estimates and a Revised Book of Estimates be presented to the House?

I expect that the adjusted Estimates being published now will be debated here next week in plenary session and in committees in the House.

Sorry, have the Revised Estimates been signed off?

For 2016.

They have been signed off by the Government?

They were signed off by Government this morning. Those details will now become available and will be debated here in plenary session or in committee, as is appropriate.

When will we see those?

They will be published now, I expect. The Minister has signed off on them and Government has signed off on them.

Is it a new Revised Book of Estimates-----

Yes.

-----or is it individual Estimates?

Individual Estimates but with the overall figures included.

So it is a new Revised Book of Estimates?

Yes, sanctioned this morning by the Cabinet. That is for 2016. The national economic discourse will take place on 24 or 25 June in Dublin Castle, hosted by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, and with a full debate here as well. The preparation for the 2017 Estimates and the budget for 2017 will commence after the Estimates have been signed off for 2016 and voted through the House.

Second, on the question Deputy Howlin raised about broadband with respect to the two Ministers, he is quite correct. The position is that the management of the tender and the contract for the State to supply broadband services throughout the country is the responsibility of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, and will remain the responsibility of that Minister. When the contract has been awarded, the emphasis shifts to the Minister for regional and rural affairs, who will have responsibility for the roll-out of task forces in each local authority to make that happen. The responsibility for the contract, the tender and all of that work lies with the Minister for communications, while the roll-out of the contract and the task forces in each local authority area will be the responsibility of the Minister for regional and rural affairs.

I call Deputy Coppinger.

And the post offices?

The post offices are the same; they will be in the Department of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Humphreys.

The post offices are shifting from the Department of Communications-----

Please, Deputy. I call Deputy Coppinger.

I did not hear it. I cannot hear the Taoiseach.

The Deputy cannot hear the Taoiseach.

I have explained about the tender and the awarding of the contract.

Now you know what it is like for us.

Responsibility for the post offices shifts to the Minister for regional and rural affairs.