Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

Tá trí cheist agam, agus tá mé ag fanacht lena gcur. Déanfaidh mé go tapaidh é.

On the European Council meeting and the forthcoming international human rights day, did the Taoiseach hold discussions with the British Prime Minister on collusion? Will that issue be pressed further on demand for co-operation with the British Government and, on foot of that, does the Taoiseach propose to establish a public inquiry into murders in which State-sponsored terrorism seems to have played a part, according to the committee of which Deputy O'Dowd is a member?

Again, with human rights in mind, the last time we had questions on this area I raised with the Taoiseach the murder of a Russian journalist. Since then the former spy, Mr. Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned. Is there an understanding that we will not press this issue from a human rights point of view, in spite of the fact that Russia has said it will not extradite poison spy suspects, according to the title of a report I have seen, or is it that our dependence on energy——

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