John Paul Phelan (Fine Gael)

Perhaps that is the case. However, it is being camouflaged as a means of reducing the level of under age drinking when it does not have anything to do with it. I want to dispel that rumour.

Speakers mentioned the pension fund, from which millions of euros have been lost, particularly as a result of investments in markets in the Far East, at a time when we have problems with our infrastructure. I am familiar with the train service from Kilkenny to Dublin, which is usually fairly good. However, a number of railway lines are not good. While I have not visited the Third World, I imagine some of the railway lines here are of a similar standard to lines in those countries.