Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

Will the Leader call on whichever Minister is responsible, possibly the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, to regulate debt collectors as a matter of urgency? The Cathaoirleach may have heard of the business that was named yesterday and today on "Liveline". Its job is debt collection on behalf of small, good businesses throughout the country which have been defrauded once by their customers. It appears now, however, they are being defrauded also by their debt collector. It is a serious issue. This company is charging thousands of euro on the promise it will collect and refund in total the fee it has taken in. This is an example of white collar crime. Urgent action is needed from the Minister in charge, who I trust is the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

I join other speakers in calling for the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House. I am fortunate that I am a member of the Joint Committee on Education and Science and I had the pleasure of hearing and speaking to the Minister at the committee two weeks ago. He said something outrageous at the meeting, however, that parents were not at all upset with the education cuts and that it was just the teachers who were. This is an outrageous remark given the number of people who have been coming out on the marches. We certainly do not have 8,000 teachers in Galway and it is parents in the main who have been involved. Last week, there were 150 parents in a school in Oranmore and they were outraged at how the cuts will affect the children. The education cuts are about children. They are not about teachers, although they will lose in terms of posts. Ultimately, those posts will be lost to the children.

I call on the Minister — excuse me, I meant the Leader. I wish I could call him a Minister because then perhaps he could deliver on this matter for us. We need a date for a debate. I must be six weeks looking for a date for the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House. It is time we had a response.