Údarás amendment accepted
The Leader confirmed he would accept Senator Ó Clochartaigh's amendment and agreed to a debate on Údarás na Gaeltachta. He also mentioned a briefing on Catalonia and said he would try to facilitate further discussion before the summer recess.
Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh will be glad to hear that I will be happy to accept his proposed amendment to the Order of Business.
Comment on this
I fully accept that there is a need to have a discussion on the role of Údarás na Gaeltachta. I will be happy to have that debate. I commend the Senator for his initiative in arranging a briefing on the situation in Catalonia in the audiovisual room this afternoon.
I hope to be there the week after next. If I am unable to go to the Senator's meeting today I will certainly pass on his views after today's audiovisual room presentation. I thank him for doing that. I know some of my colleagues opposite think that I am always criticising but it is important that people like Senator Ó Clochartaigh get credit for the work they do in promoting human rights and in raising different viewpoints from different sides of political arguments across the world. My views would not be too dissimilar to the Senator's on some things, but on other things they are. I commend him for that.