Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

We will get to Kyoto, but given that the Minister will be here, the Senator should address his comments to him.

I formally second Senator Leyden's motion to convey our sympathies to the American ambassador on the shuttle disaster. Senator Browne raised the matter of teachers' centres and asked for a debate to be attended by the Minister. I do not know if the closures are a fact or a proposal, but the centres play a very important role in the lives of the schools in their catchment areas. I hope that what the Senator has described will not come to pass.