Dan Boyle (Green Party)

——and private rented accommodation. The House should debate those matters with the relevant Minister in attendance. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government intends to introduce a landlord and tenant Bill, whose provisions may cover some of the points raised by Senator McFadden.

Senator Hannigan mentioned rendition flights. There is a provision in the programme for Government, which has yet to be implemented, that would require the training of gardaí to inspect aircraft as and when a fear exists that a plane might be being used for rendition purposes. There is a precedent for the Irish authorities to inspect planes of foreign nations. It is hoped that this provision of the programme for Government can be implemented soon on the basis of the existing precedent. The Senator's views will be made known to the relevant Departments.

Senators Mary White and Paschal Donohoe referred to the OECD report on public services, but from different perspectives. The fact that both perspectives were aired means we should have a debate on the contents of the report. We are all interested in seeing more efficient and higher quality public services and we all suspect there are reasons that is not being achieved in many areas of our public services at the moment.

Senator Donohoe referred to the decentralisation programme, which would arise in such a debate. My take on what the OECD seemed to say is a bit removed from that of Senator Donohoe. It seemed to say that while there are reasons for the Government's policy — namely, moving Government services into areas to provide an economic impetus, jobs, opportunities and spin-off effects there — it is not decentralisation, it is the relocation of services that are still centralised. The debate we need to have is on how public services can be improved by having actual decentralised services, so that decisions will be made in local communities for those communities which are affected by the decisions.