Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I also appreciated the dignity of the commemoration of the Battle of the Somme last Saturday where new ground was broken.

I would not take as pessimistic a view as Senator O'Toole of the future of call centres. I read an article in the financial pages of a newspaper from across the water, to the effect that companies there were beginning to rethink the outsourcing of call centres to distant continents because it was not working very satisfactorily. There is much to be said for having call centres closer to the customer base. That argument is by no means over.