Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

I support the amendment to the motion. Some fundamental and valid questions have been raised by Senator O'Toole. I do not claim to have the answers but would make one suggestion. Given the questions he raised, it appears that he has lost faith in the structures in place. I would be one of the first to concede that there are serious faults in them. During recent events in Iraq, when criticisms were thrown back and forth across the floor of the House, one of the strongest points I made was that if the United Nations was functioning to the highest level of efficiency, some of the problems about which we were concerned would not have arisen.