Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Deputy Leader, Senator Dardis, to request the Minister for Education and Science, after meeting the four Deputies from the constituency in which Tom Sweeney resides, to come to the House this evening or tomorrow morning to make a statement on the progress, or lack of it, on the negotiations and discussions in his Department. The Department is aware of the situation regarding Mr. Sweeney who is on the 22nd day of a hunger strike.