Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator van Turnhout raised a serious issue regarding the use or non-availability of the audio-visual room which is important to us all, individually and as groups. This House has a proud record of engagement with civic society through the Seanad Public Consultation Committee and the efforts of our Leader, on which we are all agreed. I urge the Cathaoirleach to summon the Committee on Procedure and Privileges Sub-Committee on Seanad Reform to have a calm look at this matter.

I very much support Senator O'Sullivan's comments on that famous race meeting in Listowel, which is the literary capital of the kingdom. It is not just important to Kerry but to the entire south of Ireland. I do not know what to say about it. Perhaps it is shameful. I would like to go with the Senator to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine because it is an important matter.