I join Senator Darragh O'Brien in saying that the leaking of a significant report like this is certainly not in the public interest. It shows grave disrespect to the Members of the Oireachtas that a significant report like this which I hope will be debated in a calm and reasoned manner in this House would be leaked. Whoever is responsible for leaking the report should be made to pay and held accountable. It is incumbent on the Government to investigate the source of the leak. The first discussion of the report should have been in the Houses of the Oireachtas after the Cabinet had seen it and approved its publication.

All Members may recently have received a significant amount of correspondence on the link between water fluoridation and cancer incidence in Ireland, with a much lower rate of cancer in Northern Ireland which does not have water fluoridation compared to the Republic of Ireland.

It drew a comparison between a much lower rate of cancer in Northern Ireland where there is no water fluoridation and the Republic, and the figures are alarming. Reputedly, the Republic has a 14% higher incidence of bladder cancer, a 23% higher incidence of pancreatic cancer and a 29% higher incidence of prostate cancer. It is important that we would get clarification on whether that information is accurate. I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Health to come to the House in the coming weeks for a debate on this critical health issue, with possibly an expert present who would give us some steer on whether this information is accurate, because if that is the case this country has a serious health problem here which, if the information we are being supplied with is correct, is being caused by the fluoridation of water.

I ask the Leader for a debate on Cabinet accountability to Parliament. For some time those of us in this House have understood the contempt with which the Seanad and its contribution are held by the Government but I raise the orchestrated leaking of this expert report, effectively by the Cabinet because it was provided by the experts to the Cabinet. I do not know what it contains. I have not seen it yet, but as early as last Wednesday, participating in "The Late Debate" on RTE, a journalist was able to say, "Well I'm fully briefed on it". Clearly, somebody briefed people on this issue and that shows the Cabinet's arrogance and disdain in its abuse of Parliament as a mere tool to carry out its wishes. One wonders when the Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, intends to move the enabling Act as Hitler did in 1933 such is the contempt in which these Houses are held in the context of considering legislation and proposals that are supposed to be put to people.

On another issue, I call for an urgent debate on the banking deal in the context of what the Irish people must sustain in terms of payback. Clearly, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and perhaps the Taoiseach, had George Orwell in mind when she described us as a special case. As our leader on this side of the House rightly said and as George Orwell said in Nineteen Eighty-Four or Animal Farm, all members are special but some are more special than others.

It was Nineteen Eighty-Four.

That is not acceptable.

"Equal" was the word used.

As I said to the Leader several weeks ago when this "special" comment was first made, special does not pay the mortgage for those in arrears. Special does not change the colostomy bag for the person whose home help hours have been cut.

Is the Senator asking for a debate today?

When will the dictatorship which the Government has become take steps to put the people first rather than tell them we are special and using the media to do its dirty work and leak whatever reports it finds too difficult to discuss in public?

We are cleaning up your mess.

There is a serious lack of irony on the other side of the House.

It is important to recognise that the Greek deal, irrespective of what we may believe - our situation is evolving - will help to stabilise the European situation and as such will be of benefit to this country.

I remind Senator Mullen that irrespective of the sad events surrounding Savita Halappanavar, the fact remains that the expert group on the A, B and C case was going to report in any event and we, as a country, were going to have to face up to the consequences of that expert group's findings.

Report to us instead of the media.

We can rehearse the debate now or wait, as Senator Darragh O'Brien said, and have a reasoned, reasonable debate when we will all have the opportunity of reading not what The Sunday Business Post tells us is in the report but the actual report.

We should have it now.