Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

----next week, we will debate the spring statement. Senators Mullins, Bradford and Walsh addressed the execution of seven people in Indonesia and the question of the death penalty and capital punishment. Our country very strongly condemns capital punishment and the death penalty. People rightly pointed out that the major powers, China and the US, practise this very frequently. We should do everything possible to try to end the death penalty and support the campaign to eliminate it. Senator Walsh also raised funding for non-national and secondary roads. Whether it is the responsibility of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government or the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, we will try to arrange for the Minister to come to the House to address that issue and several other issues relating to local government and the environment during the coming weeks.