Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator Norris is so right, but I am talking about today. Since this new Greek Government was elected a high-wire strategy is being played which is risking everything for all of us. We paid the price for the entire European banking system. We never got it back but that is another day's work. What I am talking about right now is the need to re-stabilise things.

I want to check with the Leader if the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has arranged for the repatriation of Irish tourists and families in Tunisia. I listened to many of them yesterday. They are literally trapped in their hotels. A mother with four children plus a baby cannot leave the hotel. Given what has happened there, how could they risk going out? I understand the UK has repatriated its citizens using the RAF. These are times when people need their country, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and quick action. Some of this was known before these people left Dublin Airport last Friday and they were not stopped from going. I understand that the travel companies are not playing ball quick enough and are forcing these people to stay out their term. That is not a holiday.