Pearse Doherty (Sinn Fein)

It has been quite difficult to listen to some of this debate and I hope it is not broadcast on "Oireachtas Report" tonight. The debate should be about the victims of the flawed health policy the Minister has overseen. It would be hard for victims of the service that has been provided down the years across the State to listen to the political toing and froing taking place in this Chamber without any reference to them.

I call for a debate on an issue on which I have asked for a debate on a number of occasions and which has been supported in the House today, namely, the undocumented Irish. I believe there is cross-party consensus on adopting a motion in this Chamber, without debate if necessary. It is disrespectful to the undocumented Irish and to those who are lobbying that this Chamber has failed to introduce this motion three weeks after it has been requested. I have made such a request every week since. Senators from across the political divide have echoed that request. I ask, as a matter of urgency, that it be brought before the House.

I reiterate a call for the Minister for Transport to come into the House and discuss the infrastructural deficiencies in the west and north west, especially around the Atlantic road corridor, the status of the project and if it will be put on hold. There is also the issue of the western rail corridor, the Donegal-Sligo link and public transport in rural areas, particularly in the west and north west. Anyone who represents those areas has seen a withdrawal of services in recent months and years. In my county of Donegal we have seen such a withdrawal in Malin and west Donegal——