Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I agree with Senator Brian Hayes that it would be a shame if we lost the opportunity to debate that report promptly. It is almost 30 years since the Dublin and Monaghan bombings took place. Many of us remember that day so well. Those who have sought the report need that debate immediately rather than it being put on the long finger.

I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to discuss the National Nutrition Surveillance Centre report on healthy or the lack of healthy lifestyles in certain parts of the country, which was published yesterday. We have always known that Ireland has different lifestyles from other parts of the world. We had not realised until yesterday the health implications for different parts of the country, for example, the east coast as against the south coast. There is a substantial amount of information in the report. The Minister will have much to say on it and we should invite him promptly for such a debate.