Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Senator John Paul Phelan made a highly relevant point about direct marketing that claims people can get what they want by taking up a particular loan offer. People who cannot afford to pay back such offers will take them up and find themselves in deeper mire later.

Senator Henry spoke about Senator Maurice Hayes's article and called for a debate on infrastructure. Senator Browne wanted the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House for a debate on capital funding for education.

Senator Bradford said that I would ask the new Ministers to come to the House to lay out their stall. Only last week during Private Members' time we had a fine debate with the Minister for Finance who stayed for the entire debate and laid out his stall. We either agreed or disagreed with him.