Maurice Hayes (Independent)

In passing, I support Senator Ó Murchú's request for a debate on Northern Ireland. It would be timely and helpful.

I raise an issue in which I have only a general cultural interest, but it touches on an important part of our national heritage. Before it is too late, will the Leader arrange a debate on the siting of a road in County Meath? There must be a way out of this. It is causing great concern to the archaeological community and to others. I wish to share with the House the words of a prominent Nationalist journalist who excoriated those who wished to put a road near Tara and claimed they would be execrated by future generations. The writer was Thomas Davis in The Nation in 1845. It has been an old problem.