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-----

Hear, hear.

-----but the Minister seems to be spending far more time on judicial appointments and other matters, including Garda stations, than he is on his own brief of transport. Cycling is a positive activity for all of us. I want to acknowledge the death at the weekend of Shane Duggan, a 16 year old from Straffan. We must make our cycling infrastructure safer and spend more money on it. That would be to everybody's benefit, including car users as the more cyclists there are, the fewer motorists there will be. Cycling in this morning, I shaved one minute off my personal best time for the journey. Almost everyone who cycles is taking a car off the road which makes it easier for everyone else. It reduces emissions and fossil fuel use. It is important that the House has a discussion on cycling. We are about to spend €4 billion on MetroLink, about which Senator McDowell outlined many concerns. Cycling infrastructure is very cheap to provide and it delivers a great deal. I request that we have an urgent debate on cycling, including cycling safety but not only that aspect, possibly before the recess if that is possible.

I think the Senator was quicker on the bike this morning than he was on the Order on Business.

The Cathaoirleach was not here for all of it,

The clock was set. I call Senator McDowell.

That is very harsh on Senator Horkan.

That was a compliment to him.