Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

Senator Mary White also referred to competitiveness, the fiscal position and costs relating to the public service.

Senator Callely referred to a return to some form of regional structure within the HSE. That matter is probably worthy of a debate. As someone who expressed reservations in writing to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health and Children in respect of the HSE's corporate governance model when it was initially put in place, I am of the view that if there is a possibility of strengthening existing structures, we should debate this matter in the House. I urge the Leader to arrange for such a debate to take place.

I wish to raise the inquiry in Northern Ireland into Bloody Sunday and the statement by Lord Saville yesterday to the victims that it will be the autumn of next year before that report is issued. He gave the reasons for that. It is important that emphasis is put on such issues and that they are brought to a speedy conclusion in the interests of all those who suffered during that terrible period. Although the Seanad did not have a debate on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and other such atrocities, the Dáil did and it called on the House of Commons to participate in generating co-operation from the British Government with the inquiries we have conducted and, in particular, to make available all the information it has on collusion, which shows the extent of the criminal activity in Northern Ireland by the security forces and possibly by the political and public service establishment. I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on this. We should maintain an emphasis on this issue so the avoidance by the British authorities of responding and co-operating is not allowed to continue.