A final supplementary on Question No. 15.

Arising from the Minister's reply in relation to the effective leverage that this country has, and specifically in relation to the Amnesty Report, as I was not clear about his reply, would he indicate (a) if the Government have received a copy of the Amnesty International Report and (b) if it is proposed to take any precise action and, if so, would he detail what action is proposed?

We have received the report all right. Our ambassador in the area is aware of the situation and it will be borne in mind in regard to his contacts with authorities in Singapore.

I want to ask——

We have spent a lot of time on this question.

Despite the fact that we have this international leverage, the Government propose simply to note the report and do nothing, even though we could at least do something.

The Deputy is now making a statement.

I am asking a question.

The Deputy can be assured that in all these cases of violations of human rights, if one were to start following them all up, one would be following up on practically 80 per cent of the regimes that exist in this world today and we, and I repeat myself here, in this country are very much in the minority.

The Minister has said that he is doing nothing about the Italian Presidency or about these questions——

We cannot go around sticking our noses into everybody's affairs.

The Minister is not sticking his nose into anybody's affairs.

Minister, I call Question No. 16.

We do it where it is needed and where we can do something practical about the situation.

The Minister has effectively already told us that in these two instances he has done nothing.