Maurice Hayes (Independent)

I, too, was going to protest about ageism but I forget what it was I wanted to say. We will have a debate later, or at least an exchange, on Europe. The Taoiseach was in Warsaw at a meeting of the Council of Europe. Perhaps the Leader could arrange for a report on that meeting so that we could have a discussion on the Council of Europe, particularly the European Court of Human Rights which appears to have a backlog of 80,000 cases. Whether its methods are right or whether sufficient resources are being devoted to it is of great importance to the ordinary citizen.