Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

Any inquiry by the Committee of Public Accounts or the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform that cannot establish facts and culpability is useless. The Irish people have paid the price for the terrible negligence and behaviour of people who did their jobs and did not do their jobs in respect of the bank guarantee. We owe it to the Irish people to establish facts and culpability. Regardless of what has been said today, let there be no banking inquiry until we can establish facts and culpability.

Like others, I refer to the terrible loss of life at the concert in the Phoenix Park. I extend my sympathy to the families involved. As a parent of one teenager and one younger person, I know fellow parents are tearing their hair out. We are failing completely with drugs, drink and young people. We are totally lost and we must use this moment to unite and deal with it.

A range of solutions is required. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to the House to discuss legislative, educational and parenting solutions? It is the norm now for young people to walk around with a crate of beer under their arms. I saw a young man walking along the street the other day with a crate of beer in one arm and a loaf of bread in the other. Children are losing weight because they are consuming too much alcohol and not eating. What happened in the Phoenix Park at the weekend is horrific. It is an issue not only for concert promoters but also for nightclub owners. There are frequent incidents in nightclubs of young people being kicked in the head while they are on the ground. It is a wonder more are not killed as a result of such incidents.