Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

——and the disempowerment they are experiencing as a result of the cutbacks? If the Senator is not familiar with what is happening to those organisations, I urge him to make it his business to find out about the difficulties they are facing because of the Government's action.

I propose an amendment to the Order of Business so that the Minister for Education and Science can come to the House to answer some of the many questions which I suspect Senators from all sides of the House have been asked regarding the education cutbacks.