Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I fully accept that there is a need to have a discussion on the role of Údarás na Gaeltachta. I will be happy to have that debate. I commend the Senator for his initiative in arranging a briefing on the situation in Catalonia in the audiovisual room this afternoon.I hope to be there the week after next. If I am not able to go to the Senator's meeting today I will certainly pass on his views after today's audio-visual room presentation. I thank him for doing that. I know some of my colleagues opposite think that I am always criticising but it is important that people like Senator Ó Clochartaigh get credit for the work they do in promoting human rights and in raising different viewpoints from different sides of political arguments across the world. My views would not be too dissimilar to the Senator's on some things, but on other things they are. I commend him for that.