Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Deputy Aylward, to the House and thank the Tánaiste for her speech earlier. While we may disagree on some issues, we wish her well for the remainder of the programme to be implemented.

This motion is like the long version of the Government election slogan, "A lot done, more to do", which we discussed briefly earlier in another forum. One of the Minister of State's colleagues said this is the lingering influence of de Valera. Some achievements may have been made but much more remains to be done.

In public statements, all Government spokespersons have set out insurance reform as a leading priority. We all subscribe to that. It has been suggested that the Government will leave no stone unturned in tackling high insurance costs and in creating a type of environment that will make it attractive to new entrants to come into the market in Ireland. We hope that will happen.