Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator Dardis in his call for a debate on Northern Ireland. That is the most appropriate way to discuss the issue of people on the run and of speaking rights in the Dáil. Much of the Good Friday Agreement has yet to be implemented including the interparliamentary co-operation it envisaged. While I have no difficulty with No. 2 on the Order of Business, why are we petitioning the British Government with regard to British army soldiers rather than Irish-born soldiers, which would be more appropriate? British soldiers are a matter for the British Government.