Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter of 14 year old Brian Rossiter, who died in Clonmel. He wondered why the Minister, when speaking on an amendment to the 1924 Act in this House, did not say he was setting up a committee or review group on the matter. I expect he considered he was dealing with the Bill and did not want to sidetrack. I do not know because I was not in the House at the time. The Senator made a general point about Ministers making announcements here or in the other House. Perhaps there is too much of a tendency to make announcements outside both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Houses of the Oireachtas is the place to make important announcements.