Ann Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

The media should step back and let the social partners and politicians work this out in some way. The media are creating so much doom and gloom that it is depressing those in the world outside. The media have a responsibility to step back for a while until we see if we can get back some order to the finances.

With regard to the Supreme Court ruling on the discrimination case involving Portmarnock golf club, the phrase that got to me was that this was a gentleman's club. That would beg the question of what we mean by a gentleman in today's thinking. It was a distasteful conclusion and I would like the Leader to perhaps bring the relevant Minister to the House to see if we can update that legislation.