Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am trying to make my contribution. I saw the Leader's tweet this morning. He must be getting tired because it is the second last Tuesday of the session. He is anticipating not only the last week but the second last one. I will be nice to him on the Order of Business.

I met a man at the weekend who told me that one has to tell people about a matter 40 times to ensure they remember it. I remind the House of my contribution last week regarding the confidence and supply agreement last week. The agreement was signed up to by the negotiators for Fine Gael, Deputies Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney, now the Taoiseach and Tánaiste, the then Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Enda Kenny, and my party leader. It provides for a review by the end 2018. While I am sure any preliminary talks would be welcome, the deal to which everybody signed up provides for a review. Perhaps the signatories did not believe we would get this far and they may not have read as far as the bottom of the second page when they signed it but that is what was in it.

The main point I wish to raise is that of cycling safety, to which Senator Ivana Bacik alluded. We have a Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, who is very interested in judges and judicial appointments. It seems he is less interested in his own brief. He has a junior Minister, the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Griffin, dealing with tourism and sport and he seems to be doing that adequately and well-----