Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail)

Senator O'Toole raised the important question of rendition flights. I see no problem in holding such a discussion, and nobody else does but there is a difference between discussing it and establishing a select committee. Committees have been set up throughout Europe to deal with this matter. What other information could be gleaned by establishing a committee of this House? Establishing such a committee would insult a friendly nation at a time when we depend on our diplomats to work with the US Administration in respect of the undocumented Irish people in the United States.