Cecilia Keaveney (Fianna Fail)

While it might sound like a negative approach, if parents got the support of the courts system with parenting skills, it would have an overall positive effect of supporting them and helping them to improve their parenting.

Later we will discuss the recall of Irish pork and bacon products, but we should push the all-Ireland dimension of the resolution as a confidence-building measure. It is a cross-Border issue, as we in the north west are aware, but I know the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who is from a Border area, will support that initiative.