Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)

An Oireachtas committee discussed it, not in the last Dáil, but in the one prior to that and nothing happened. We are talking about it today, but that is not what we should be doing. We have legislation that would make people aware of the potential dangers to their children. I would not like to be back here in 47 years time saying we should have made them more aware so that more people would not have suffered the long-term effects. If we applied the precautionary principle in more avenues of Government, from financial regulation to planning, we would be in a far better position. When it comes to people's health, we should not operate in the margin of risk. With 2,000 reports completed on the effects of mobile phones and mobile phone masts, of course we will not get any consensus and some people will be for and others against. I said at the start that this is showman politics and not real stuff. We should legislate. Colleagues this morning gave out about us having motions on tobacco and mobile phones.