Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

Senator Sheahan spoke about road safety, which is an issue particularly at this time of the year. We should all ask everybody to take extra care on our roads coming up to Christmas. There were some very sad deaths on the roads earlier in the week and we expressed our condolences to the relatives of those who lost their lives in tragic accidents in the past week.

Senator Leyden spoke about EU legislation. I am endeavouring to have debates on EU legislation and directives in this House. I have been informed that the majority of the committees are dealing with EU directives and there is no backlog at present.