Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I strongly support my colleague, Senator Brian Hayes, in his quest for information from the Government and from the Leader of this House on the long-promised judicial code of conduct. There is a judicial institute, but the code is a separate matter and, presumably, will have a legislative basis.

When will the MacEntee report, which has been delivered, be published? It deals with the 1974 Dublin bombings and the alleged involvement of British military intelligence in these matters. Does the Leader envisage that we will debate the report in this House? I formally request that we hold a debate on that all-important report before the dissolution.

When will the Government make the appointment to the new statutory position of inspector of prisons? Would it not be fitting if the present incumbent, whom we know well and who has served the State well, was the first appointed to that statutory position?