Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

I join with others in expressing concern for the five people in Mayo who have been imprisoned as a consequence of their protest at the construction of the onshore gas pipeline. I ask the Leader to organise another debate on this matter in the next session because the message has not been received by the Minister that direct intervention is required to prevent the major crime that is being perpetrated on people in the west. Shell, with Bord Gáis as its partner, is taking an important resource out of the west and putting it into the east and south.