Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

I join others in wishing the Government well on this important day as we plot our course. No matter how fair the measures introduced today, it will raise the frustrations and anger of many of us, including Members on this side of the House. Difficult decisions mean pain must be taken by all. They must be taken; we must get on with it and look to the future with determination and positivity.

At the earliest juncture I seek a debate on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship does not refer to the individual but is an approach, a way of doing things. It refers to creativity and flexibility. If we can introduce this to our education system from the primary sector right up to third and fourth level, we can seek to replace our level of dependency on foreign direct investment and on the private sector and, in particular, the public sector to provide jobs. We can look to breed our own intellectual property and entrepreneurs in a way that will lay a foundation which will take this country far into the future in a very positive way.

Notwithstanding the debate today on bowel cancer awareness, I seek a debate on the national cancer control programme. It is being implemented by the Health Service Executive under the auspices of the professor whom I am specifically not allowed to name.