James Bannon (Fine Gael)

It is important the House holds a weekly debate on the situation in Iraq. Like other civil minded people, I am abhorred by the brutality and cruelty of the attacks on the civilian communities.

I ask the Leader to meet the director general of RTE to discuss the broadcasting of the proceedings of the Houses of the Oireachtas under "Oireachtas Report" at an earlier time. Many busy people consider that the important debates conducted in this House and the Dáil are broadcast at too late a time. They should be broadcast between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.