Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I wish to add to what a number of Senators stated with regard to Chernobyl. I am also involved with a group in my area which brings in children every summer. The difficulties imposed by the need for groups to provide visas mean organisations such as the one in which I am involved must organise families in January because this much time is required at the other end to obtain visas. Providing the names of families willing to take children to our organisation in Belarus in January causes major stress and strain. If the waiver were in place, we would have more time to get more families involved and bring in more children. The effect it has is to deprive many children from coming here for holidays.