Larry Butler (Fianna Fail)

Before Christmas, we put forward the document, Building Ireland's Smart Economy. Part of that document concerns the energy rating of houses and energy efficiency within houses. I got that motion passed within the parliamentary party before Christmas. It is now a question of putting some money behind the proposal. There is potential for substantial job creation in that area, with the possibility of 25,000 to 30,000 jobs. It is vitally important. We heard an architect talking this morning on "Today with Pat Kenny". From the Government's point of view this could be a self-financing project.

I welcome Fine Gael's proposal today and we should seriously consider going into the Dáil to listen to what the Taoiseach has to say at 4 p.m. A reasonable approach would be to suspend the Seanad at 4 p.m. and have a serious debate on the economy. While we had debates on the economy before, I would like to see a more——