Catherine Noone (Fine Gael)

I join Senator Paul Bradford and the other Senators who spoke about the Croke Park agreement. As the parameters have changed, we must have a discussion on this matter. There is no better place to have that discussion than in this House. I urge the Leader to do what he can in that regard in the short term.

I join Senator Michael Mullins in his comments on decentralisation. We knew it was crazy at the time, but we must make the best of the situation in which we find ourselves. In a way, we have our own NAMA stock of properties around the country with which, it would appear, we can afford to do nothing. We should discuss this issue soon in this House with a view to deciding on some way to use these properties if we are not going to go ahead with phase two of the decentralisation plans in most towns. We must offload these properties or do whatever is necessary in order to create some good from the bad situation we have had to deal with.

I also wish to raise an issue that has been on my mind and which will arise again in the new year. This may seem a small issue, but the Grand Canal Theatre will be called the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from March 2012. I find this unacceptable.