John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I will come to that. It is not a matter of coming into the parliamentary party meeting every Tuesday and facing Members who will ask a Minister questions. The opposite is the case. There is an invitation on the agenda to engage in conversation or debate regarding forthcoming legislation. I do not believe the Minister attempted to placate people by offering some safeguards or rubbishing their proposals. That was not the case - I will try to come to that.

In response to Senator Mullen, I wish to clear up the issue of whether the Minister was just sitting in his office and decided to begin this legislation rather than referring to certain advices. The advices to which he was referring would have included that of the Garda Síochána. The International Shooting Sport Federation is a member of the International Olympic Committee and is in charge of Olympic shooting events. It does not and will not support IPSC shooting in any form. It is important to take into consideration that a governing body associated with the Olympic Games does not and will never support IPSC in any form.