Tom Shehan (Fine Gael)

I cannot let it pass without mentioning that Senator Coghlan, in his modesty, did not say that he was out with a litter picker on many occasions.

Prior to the recess I asked for the chief executive of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to be brought before the House. I ask again for that to be done as a matter of urgency. Some 700 jobs are about to be relocated because of the sledge-hammer approach by the EPA and I would like its CEO to come to the House to explain that. There is a 1.4% possibility of contamination.

I am a member of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and the Financial Regulator and the Governor of the Central Bank attended that committee during the summer but one only gets a minute at the end of the meeting to ask a question and when one directs one's question to the Financial Regulator but the Governor of the Central Bank chooses to answer it, that is not good enough.

I ask the Leader to ask the Financial Regulator to come to the House. I have raised for the past year the issue of the sledge-hammer approach that has been taken to the credit union movement. When I put it to the Financial Regulator in committee that he had done this before in another jurisdiction, he went pale. He came to the committee with a naive approach that he knew nothing about the credit union movement. He destroyed the credit union movement in Burma and he is trying to do the same here. He is a banker who is destroying to destroy the credit union movement.