Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator Glynn's proposal regarding the professional registration Bill, which is long overdue. Discussions on the issue have been going on for approximately ten years and it is about time somebody decided to bring the Bill forward. The area is unregulated and it is a travesty that the Bill has not been introduced.

Will the Leader consider having a debate when we return in the autumn on the crisis in Palestine? I led a delegation including Senator John Paul Phelan and Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Gormley, Gregory and Gilmore to Palestine where a "wall of shame" is being built by CRH. I hope we can arrange a campaign to request shareholders of that discredited company to withdraw their support from a company that is building a "wall of shame" around Bethlehem which is the home and birthplace of Jesus Christ. How could CRH do it? The situation is a travesty. I am ashamed that a company from this country would supply the cement to build a wall 30 ft. high around the city of Bethlehem. I urge shareholders to withdraw their support from this discredited company.