Feargal Quinn (Independent)

On many occasions I have raised the number of deaths occurring on our roads. Last week, however, there were four workplace deaths. Two people were electrocuted, one in Laois and one in Leitrim, and two drownings occurred at work, one in Donegal and the other in Carrick-on-Suir. Will the Leader establish that the Health and Safety Authority has enough power to influence this situation? If we ignore what is happening such fatal accidents may increase, as happened with road deaths, because we did not pay enough attention to them at first.

Last week, a Donegal man going on holidays to the United States was stopped by the immigration authorities before he left. The reason, apparently, was that he had been tried in court and later acquitted. He claims that information on the Garda file was made available to the American authorities. I do not know if this is correct, but I would like the Leader to establish that such information on Garda files is not made available to others, particularly to those outside the State.