Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The views of environmentalists will have to be taken into account but a balance must be struck between wanting to get infrastructure in place and attending to environmental issues. The national infrastructure body will do just this and it is hoped we will have the legislation before us immediately after Christmas when we can debate the matter.

Senator Bannon requested a debate on the mid-term evaluation of the BMW region about which I am interested since it would be useful to have the report before the House in order to examine it. The debate would apply to just one region but it would be interesting.