Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Training courses for parents would be good.

Senator Brennan praised Garda Brian Kelleher and fireman Michael Liston. Yesterday, Senator Leyden raised the matter officially in the House. I understand fully Senator Brennan's need to raise the issue, particularly as he is from the area. We do wish to record our sympathy to those who, in times of difficulty, come to our aid throughout the country.

Senator McHugh raised an issue regarding Newtowncunningham. His point was that people live in dormitory towns but do not avail of services there. They go to the main cities to do so. That is free choice. This point concerns capacity building whereby local communities obtaining capacity building skills can enable them to provide good services of which people would avail.

Senator Dooley raised the matter of the payscales of speech and language therapists. They go into private practice because they receive very good rates of pay.

Senator Ross raised the matter of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. He discussed semi-State bodies and what Fine Gael and Labour did in their day. Senator Bannon is gone. He will not have any lectures at all so he was right.