Michael Mullins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I strongly support the call by Senator Michael D'Arcy. This is a very serious issue. I heard a detailed discussion on the drug in question on the radio recently and I heard stories of patients who had benefited significantly from it. We must tease out the issue with the Minister.

I join colleagues in congratulating everybody who was successful in the recent local and European elections. It is a particularly proud moment for us that one of our colleagues, Senator Deirdre Clune, is now a Member of the European Parliament. We wish her well and every success in her career at European Parliament level.

I ask the Leader to arrange a discussion on serious and violent crime at the earliest opportunity with the Minister for Justice and Equality when she settles into her new role. I say that in light of the discovery of two badly decomposed bodies on a remote island in County Meath yesterday. Our hearts go out to the families of those two young people whose lives were so violently taken. The situation shows the depths to which the criminal underworld in this country will go to deal with people who have crossed them in one way or another. It is important that the new Minister would hear the views of the Members of this House on how badly we need to tackle this very serious cancer in society.