Vincent P Martin (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the speakers. It has been really enlightening stuff. I found the speeches, the papers and the presentations very interesting with regard to the areas of co-operation North and South and the comparisons made between human rights North and South. In the speakers' respective opinions,, has there been sufficient attention to environmental rights North and South and the ongoing cost of not having a unified regulatory approach to those? There are two utterly random examples which I think make the case. In this very Chamber I am advancing a Bill to protect the native Irish honeybee against importation of non-native honeybees. Ireland is the last stronghold in Europe and the black native bee apis mellifera melliferawill be hybridised. What good is it if I do that in the Twenty-six Counties if there is not a similar law in the Six Counties? Just in the past week I have been looking at the whole area of the regulation of the carcinogenic substance, formaldehyde, which is used in embalming and how the excess substance is disposed of. We need joined-up thinking and rules around that. Is this getting the attention it deserves when we speak about co-operation and comparisons with regard to rights?