Maria Corrigan (Fianna Fail)

I want to clarify a statement I made on the Order of Business yesterday. The level of MMR vaccination among the population is insufficient. The impact is that there are children who will contract measles, mumps and rubella. We are in the midst of an outbreak of measles and the consequences can be devastating for some children. Some will die and others will acquire an intellectual disability. Death and intellectual disability as a result of mumps, measles or rubella are completely unacceptable in this day and age, as they are completely avoidable. I appreciate that families had concerns on foot of some published studies which have now been discredited and withdrawn. I urge the HSE to enhance its campaign to ensure Ireland will once again achieve the level of MMR vaccination it requires.

The Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children is completing its work. Will the Leader, when planning the schedule for this session, allow time for a debate on the committee's report which is due to be launched in the coming weeks?

Will the Leader make inquiries and tell us next week the date on which the capacity legislation will be before the House? We have spoken about standards and the inspectorate for people with intellectual disabilities but if we do not deal with the capacity legislation, we will be at nothing.

I support the comments made by Senator Wilson. I raised the subject in respect of the behaviour of banks when pursuing individuals for moneys that, as the Senator said, they are rightly owed. The words that come to mind are "bullying", "harassment" and "intimidation". We should not be behind the door in calling it for what it is.