Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Senator, I am responding to him. I agree with some of the things he said, and I disagree with other points. I am allowed to do that. I agree that the issue needs attention, that money will not always solve it and that there is a strategy or method of doing things that might work better. It would be good for the Senator to have the opportunity to raise it in a more fulsome matter with the Minister in the House.

Senator Wilson raised the subject of the Defence Forces and the future of the Defence Forces. Senators have brought up issues around the Defence Forces on three or four occasions and I have said that clearly there is a need for a debate in the House on this. I understand that this has been arranged for the week after we return.

This concludes the responses to the Order of Business.