Brendan Ryan (Labour)

On a normal Tuesday there are so many issues I would like to raise. The decision by the police authorities in London to reintroduce officers on the beat, having discovered, as everyone knew, that this works or the heroic display of democracy by the Parliament of Turkey last weekend in the face of the most extraordinary bribery are issues we should debate.

I wish to be associated with the remarks of Senator Brian Hayes and I wish the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister success at Stormont. I am sure the Taoiseach is lecturing the parties in Northern Ireland about dialogue, consultation, the need for openness and transparency and the need to keep all channels of communications open and not to take decisions in a way which alienates large sections of the population.