Terry Brennan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I listened to comments about the success of the Wild Atlantic Way and there is a further proposal to link the Viking city of Waterford with my own medieval town of Carlingford via the medieval city of Kilkenny, the Boyne Valley and Newgrange and Ferdia and Ardee, hopefully ending up in the nicest medieval town in the country, if I might say so. There should also be an east coast wild way in the future.

I read recently that my old alma mater, the ESB, is to recruit 300 apprentices over the next few years.It is the way forward and is part of its development programme for the next five to ten years, which will provide young men and women with great opportunities. They heard today that the Office of Public Works, OPW, intends to employ apprentices as stonemasons to continue the good work it is doing to our national monuments throughout the country.

I support the call by Senator Quinn on the question of litter and dumping rubbish. As a nation we must take the responsibility to take home the litter we create and bin it. If we did not have to empty all the bins in our capital city, towns and villages or clean our streets one can only imagine the money we would save. The responsibility lies with us all.