Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

I have a request to make of the Leader. I am appalled that the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, know about this. Will the Leader assist me and the families of people with disabilities in asking the Minister and the Minister of State to roll back on these indiscriminate cuts, pull back from the moratorium in place in the disability sector and protect front-line services for people with disabilities?

I would also like to comment on the courageous words of Archbishop Martin yesterday. He is finding strength to keep alive the debate on sin inside the church, an issue which could easily go underground again. The Pope made a grave admission yesterday, that the greatest threat to the church was posed by sin within it. The church has to face up to this, but there is also sin within the State. We need a debate on the report of the Ombudsman for Children on the need for the child protection guidelines to be placed on a statutory footing.