We have an opportunity to cry "halt" and we must do so. We have an opportunity to ask sane minds to focus on this issue but we will not achieve anything by dividing, making this a political issue or being party political about it. I have made these same points before and a journalist from The Irish Times rang me two days later to ask if I had been admonished by Fianna Fáil for saying what I had. I said that I have been in the Seanad for six years and have always been allowed to express my views openly and honestly. Many Fianna Fáil and Government Members agree with me. That type of targeting is unhelpful.