Shane Ross (Independent)

I was the butt of one of those pieces and I sent the journalist a short e-mail yesterday saying I did not know he was writing for The Sunday Business Post. The way to deal with this is not to respond in a sensitive way if we are confident about what we are doing. The point that should be made, and this is where I part from Senator Ormonde, is that perhaps some of those criticisms are right. It does not seem to have occurred to anybody in this House that perhaps some of the people who say we are a group of old dinosaurs and fossils are right because we are not relevant enough. I do not understand why we should not take that on board. Senator Fitzgerald pointed to that earlier with her amendment calling for a discussion on the pharmacists. A crisis which is brewing will erupt in less than two weeks' time——