Why on the visit of the Minister of State to the Gweedore centre did he depart from what was normal procedure by just inviting one of the elected Members from that constituency to visit the centre with him? Would he not regard it as desirable since we are dealing with training of people and preparing them for working life, that on such visits he would be accompanied by all the elected Members from that constituency?

My visit to Gweedore was part of a wider vist to Donegal where I attended a number of functions and visited a number of institutions involved in the general manpower area and the general area of education and training. With regard to the Gweedore centre, the reason Deputy McGinley was with me was because he has taken a constant interest in the affairs of Gweedore. He has been with my office on an almost daily basis since I took office and I know has been an equally constant visitor to the offices of the Minister for Labour and his predecessor, Deputy Liam Kavanagh. In those circumstances Deputy McGinley was anxious that I visit Gweedore which is situated in his home parish.

I did not get an official invitation. I just presented myself there that morning and accompanied the Minister of State without an invitation.

If it was a party political visit to Gweedore I believe it should not merit mention in the House. If it was in the interests of the training of young people who are there — and, hopefully, will continue to be there — from all the Gaeltacht areas of the country would the Minister of State not agree with me that it is highly dangerous and divisory for him to visit a centre accompanied only by a Fine Gael TD when Deputy Pat Gallagher has in my experience been working in the interests of that centre long before he was an elected as a Member of this House?

I have no doubt that Deputy Gallagher has been working in the interests of the centre in Gweedore, just as I have no doubt that the remaining Member for the constituency, Deputy Cathal Coughlan, has been. I know that Deputy McGinley has been to see me, as I said, on an almost constant basis putting to me certain matters relating to the AnCO training centre. I was naturally anxious to investigate some of the points put to me at first hand with the person who had been putting those points to me who happened to be Deputy McGinley.

Question No. 13.

We spent twice as long on three questions as we have spent on those questions. Those eight questions are of vital importance to my constituency.

A final supplementary.

Will the Minister of State put it on the record that I have taken no particular interest in this? Does this here today not indicate my interest? Do the questions to the Department of Labour on previous occasions not indicate my interest? Does the Minister think that will cut ice with the people of south-west Donegal? If he does, his pettiness and his foolishness are certainly going to the lowest.