Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

I join Senator Fitzgerald and others in asking for the Minister of State with responsibility for children and youth affairs to come to the House as a matter of urgency. It is extraordinary, given that the Government is supposedly concerned and holding a referendum on children's rights, that we have had a failure to protect children amid secrecy. When will the Minister publish the report mentioned? If we are serious about protecting children, why has there not been proper accountability, transparency and communication by the Government? When will this happen? When will there be an end to cronyism by Fianna Fáil and its cohorts in the Green Party?

I am amused by Senator Ó Brolcháin. Government is not about the "Siege of Ennis" or "Lanigan's Ball"; it is about governing——