Maurice Hayes (Independent)

Like other Senators, I congratulate the GAA, but I would like to reduce Senator Brian Hayes's three cheers to two. I say this because I think the GAA has changed its rhetoric without changing its behaviour. There is something anomalous when any sporting organisation that does great work for communities has to rely for funding on bar takings and so on. There has to be some means found of raising finance. In my ideal world it would have been the national lottery or the dormant accounts fund, but that seems to have gone.

In view of the publicity surrounding the report today of the Comptroller and Auditor General, can we have a debate at some stage on the project management, estimates and control of large public capital projects? I refer not simply to the roads but to the general issue.