Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

-----we are not able to accept the amendment. I am very grateful to the Sinn Féin Senators for proposing their very laudable objectives and also to all other speakers and all Senators for subscribing to the substantive motion proposed.

I refer again to the Sinn Féin amendment. There is wonderful co-operation between North and South, as Senators are well aware. It is a very useful idea, to which I subscribe, which the Leader and I discussed last week and as Senator Labhras Ó Murchú suggested, to invite the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to the Chamber in due course to discuss tourism further. Perhaps on that day the Minister of State might grace us with his presence.