Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator Norris on that point, which I have raised many times. I welcome that the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission started a process whereby it might reform the amount of material sent in the post and we could get the material electronically instead.

I support my colleague, Senator Denis O'Donovan, in his call a debate on the fishing industry. We have a real crisis on the western seaboard which has been substantially ignored because the rest of the country seems oblivious to it. However, on the western seaboard and indeed in all our coastal communities there is a serious crisis.

On the economy generally I call, as so many of us have in recent weeks, for a rolling debate on the economy. We have been living in changed economic circumstances for several months now. It is no surprise to see the information contained in the ESRI report this morning. I refute the idiotic suggestion that this problem is entirely home-grown. Let us use some international statistics, for example——