Kathleen O'Meara (Labour)

I, too, support calls for a debate on stem cell research. Members should be commended for insisting that this issue be debated in an open fashion and I hope the Tánaiste will be available at an early date to do so. I have asked previously about the status of the Hanly report, and I do so again. It is important that we, in Nenagh and in the mid-west, know what is happening. I suggest to the Minister for Defence a few political commandments such as "thou shalt not hang thy colleague out to dry" and "thou shalt not speak with a forked tongue."