Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is great to see the Acting Leader, Senator Currie, in the hot seat. I say, "Well done" to her. I listened carefully to Senator Keogan's contribution. I would argue that our international and national obligations are not mutually exclusive. We have obligations in both contexts. What I would like to see happen is a resolution of the issues that affect us nationally because that will, by extension, resolve the issues arising from our international obligations. I had occasion to be in a hospital recently and almost all of the nursing staff there were Filipino. Were they not there and if we were not able to rely on the tens of thousands of workers who come here from abroad, our health service would essentially collapse.