Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

All right-minded people would have to welcome the result of the Saville report and the comments of the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, MP. To some extent, the report is cold comfort to the relatives of the 14 people who were murdered, but there are many more victims, as Senator Harris stated. As to whether the people who committed the Bloody Sunday atrocity should be tried, the answer is, "Yes". When one hears of an individual twice firing on a wounded person on the ground to ensure he or she had conclusively "done the job", to borrow a phrase, there is only one place for that person, namely, a court of law where justice would be meted out in the appropriate way.

Like other Senators, I have repeatedly articulated my opinion on the adverse effects of the substances sold in head shops. It gives me no pleasure to inform the House that, over a five-day period, young men and women numbering in the double figures were admitted to the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar and treated appropriately. This number does not take into account the people treated by general practitioners and MIDOC. In the main, the substance used was WHACK. It is time we whacked the head shops and the peddlers therein and put them out of business once and for all.

Having mentioned the regional hospital, I am pleased to be able to report that, following my statements in the House last year regarding the loss of our dermatologist to Beaumont Hospital because she did not get the appropriate supports from the HSE, a replacement consultant dermatologist has been offered the job and will be taking it up during the coming months. This is good news.

I will refer briefly to the comments of Senators Ryan and Twomey. I support the closure of the old psychiatric hospitals, having worked in one for more than 30 years, but they must be replaced with appropriate facilities. I will tell the Minister for Health and Children that, when the health boards' visiting committees — the Cathaoirleach was a member on one — visited those institutions, the adverse conditions were reported and addressed.