Ann Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

I will not hold up the Order of Business. All the points have been raised. I welcome the call for a debate on energy and the points raised by Senator Quinn on the role of Bord Gáis and ESB. I do not know what their role is anymore and I would welcome a debate on that issue.

We should have an ongoing debate on the economy. Given the nature of what I am hearing and the statements and counter statements being made, I want a freshness introduced so that confidence is brought back. That is all I ask. Let us stop this shouting and roaring. I am not able to take it anymore. It is ugly.

A debate on FÁS must come back onto the agenda. Having viewed a programme last night on the monitoring and transparency of community employment schemes in a certain area, it is necessary that we conduct a root and branch exercise on community employment schemes and also on apprenticeships. I ask FÁS to enter into discussions with the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and many VECs throughout the country which long ago employed the prime people in educating apprentices in both woodwork and metalwork, which people were fine teachers. What has gone wrong with FÁS given all that is happening currently? We must open up co-ordination and co-operation in that area. I support the calls on the Leader to have those debates in this House as soon as possible.