The report of the Business Committee has been circulated and may be taken as read. Are the proposed arrangements for this week's business agreed to?

They are not agreed.

I call Deputy Doherty.

Go raibh maith agat a Cheann Comhairle. Late last night, in an attempt that now characterises this Government's approach to accountability, we had the internal report into the rule-breaking champagne party in the Department of Foreign Affairs given to the media. This is an internal report that did not even interview the man in charge. Why? Because the Minister ensured the terms of reference he drafted ensured he was outside the scope of the review. This is typical of a Minister who is out of touch, who has been at the helm for too long and whose judgment has been called into question more and more often. On the media this morning the Minister, Deputy Coveney, said he is accountable to this House and it is here he will answer questions. Will the Taoiseach move swiftly to ensure the Minister comes before the House this week to make a statement and answer questions on this affair?

I call Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Since we agreed the Order of Business last week we have had the really shocking announcement of the Government's bloody-minded insistence on going back to a traditional leaving certificate, which ignores the clear call of leaving certificate students for an alternative. Before that decision is finalised we need to have a serious discussion in this House, because there are alternatives. I heard the Taoiseach say earlier that we have not outlined our alternatives. Give us the chance to do so in the House this week. We have set out clearly our view the leaving certificate should be scrapped and that it is an unfair gatekeeping exercise limiting access to higher and further education. Let us discuss that. Has the Government looked seriously at it? Has it looked at expanding the places in further and higher education to do away with the need for the pointless-----

I thank the Deputy; his time is up.

-----and stressful leaving certificate.

His time is up.

Will the Taoiseach allow for a debate on the leaving certificate and the options and alternatives for students?

I understand we will have question time with the Minister for Education this evening. I call Deputy Michael Collins.

I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We saw last week that the military exercise by the Russians off the south-west coast of Ireland was moved outside the exclusive economic zone, EEZ, only after the intervention of our fishermen with the Russians. We need a full debate on this issue in the Dáil on how, as with Brexit, our Government stood idly by while these fishermen's lives and livelihoods were in jeopardy. It is astonishing, to say the least, and has left the nation in hysterics, that the country's political system failed the fishermen and they had to go out there themselves and sort the issue out. Will the Taoiseach allow us to debate where the Government went wrong on this issue this week in the Dáil?

I call Deputy Naughten.

I will be brief, a Cheann Comhairle. There is huge anxiety out there among leaving certificate students. The way they were informed last night, namely, via social media, was not the way they should have been. This Chamber, Dáil Éireann, should have a proper debate. Let the Minister for Education come and outline exactly the detail that has been presented to her and let us explore some of the practical options that could ease the anxiety for students. As I said here last week, we should be looking at an alternative model that is neither the current approach or the hybrid one but one that eases the anxiety of students. We should be given the opportunity to have that debate.

I thank Deputy Naughten. There is nobody else. I call on the Taoiseach to reply.