On Tuesday I requested that the Attorney General be asked to come to the House under Standing Order 56 to explain her role in the current controversy and answer valid questions that many of us on all sides of the House had. I will not rehash those questions, but my request is as valid today as it was on Tuesday. I am proposing an amendment to the Order of Business that, under Standing Order 56, the Attorney General come to the House today to answer our questions and those of the public about her role in these issues, given that she knew about them last November and, apparently, did not tell anyone about them.

Will the Leader arrange a debate on online savings and discount companies? How are they regulated? Like many others, I have been done by completesavings.ie. The Leader might like to check this out for himself. Irish Rail offers a €10 discount on the next fare, but, unbeknownst to anyone, the website signs up the customer with completesavings.ie which takes €12 a month from his or her bank account. I have been in contact with Irish Rail and completesavings.ie. Some of my colleagues have been duped in the same way. More important, many hundreds of people have unknowingly been signed up for this payment in connection with future discount offers.

Two questions must be asked. One specifically relates to the appropriateness of a semi-State company like Irish Rail, for example, offering these types of "savings" to people, as it could cost €144 per year to get €10 off a rail ticket. That is a specific example, but, more importantly and in general, there is a question of how these types of online offer are regulated and who looks after them. I have written to the Consumers Association of Ireland in this regard and intend to take up the matter with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, who I have no doubt will be concerned about a company in his charge having a commercial arrangement with a private company which is passing on bank, credit and debit card details from the Irish Rail website to a third party which happens to be an English company. We could tease out the matter in the Seanad, as it is wholly inappropriate for Irish Rail to enter into an arrangement like this. Other companies, like Ryanair, have such arrangements, but they are private; although I do not agree with it, they can do as they like. I believe Argos recently had a commercial arrangement with the company but has severed its links in that regard. This is extreme sharp practice and many citizens are paying money for it from their accounts. These do not show up as a direct debit but rather a point of sale payment with no other details. We could have a job to do in looking at the regulations and highlighting these specific cases.

I welcome Mr. Michael Murphy and Ewald Hoffmann to the Vistiors Gallery. They are here at the invitation of Senator Mary White and have a long-standing connection with Waterford Glass.

Senator Darragh O'Brien has proposed an amendment to the Order of Business and I know the Leader dealt with the issue very comprehensively yesterday. I also spoke to the matter and pointed out that it seems to be a rather desperate diversionary tactic by Fianna Fáil to continue to do this. Fianna Fáil should reflect on the matter. Even if the Attorney General was compelled to come before either House of the Oireachtas, she is bound by the same client-lawyer privilege as any other lawyer and there are also considerations of Cabinet confidentiality that would clearly confine anything she might have to say.

She has questions to answer.

In that context, I very much welcome the decision we took at the justice committee last night to seek to include certain matters in the terms of reference of the commission of investigation. We have written to the Taoiseach today in that regard. That decision was agreed by almost all the members on the committee.

I welcome two developments which emerged yesterday. The first concerns a very welcome fall in the unemployment rate to 11.8%. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has pointed out that this is the lowest rate of unemployment for five years. Although the rate is still too high, it is now just below the EU average, which is very welcome. I also welcome publication of the White Paper on universal health insurance yesterday and the debate in which people are becoming engaged that concerns the proposal to reform the health system by introducing universal health insurance. It is an historic move, of which the Government should be very proud.

It is just a tax.

For the first time it will do away with the two-tier health care system that we have had for far too long, with people being able to buy faster treatment and better outcomes in health care simply because they have more money. For the first time we will move to a health care system based on need rather than means, which I welcome.

I will also mention the establishment of the new Educate Together together at Basin Lane in Rialto in Dublin 8. I have been very involved with this campaign for many years and there is an existing Educate Together national school in Portobello that will relocate there. I am pleased that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, speaking at a ceremony to mark this change on Tuesday, noted the need to ensure greater diversity in the primary school structure and that the Portobello school would be moving to a site at Basin Lane formerly occupied by a Christian Brothers school. It is an historic move towards diversifying patronage and ensuring greater parental choice in the education of children.