Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

The point made by Senator van Turnhout about the birth rate is valid. Maintaining and encouraging the birth rate is critical. Her points were well made and I respect her comments in this regard. I had a chilling experience in the past two weeks. I was in Brussels attending an EU summit on China, and we know how high birth rates are there. There was an interjection from the Serbian delegate commenting on how bad things were in that country because people were not having babies.