Alan Kelly (Labour)

I said that at the beginning. The environment is one of the biggest issues and the others are the access debacle, particularly in the mid-west, competitiveness, product development and the various marketing challenges facing us.

A number of Senators raised the issue of the undocumented in the United States. I was one of the few who attended an all-party meeting on this issue last night. It is a pity there was not a larger attendance but significant business was going on in the Dáil at the time. I took the liberty of getting in contact with some of those on the committee that is trying to promote the cause of the undocumented in America. I know some of them quite well personally. This is an area on which we must maintain a collective cross-party view. Unfortunately, however, the people who have been doing their best in recent years to help the undocumented through various strategies in many cases believe the current Minister is not doing all he can in order to achieve this.