I wish to be associated with the words of the Cathaoirleach on the passing of our former colleague, Brendan Daly. I extend my sympathies and condolences to the Daly family and to the Briscoe family on the death of former Deputy and Lord Mayor, Ben Briscoe.

It would be remiss of me to allow the opportunity to pass without mentioning the horrific scenes that everybody witnessed last night on the “RTÉ Investigates” programme. As a farmer myself, and as somebody who was selected here on the Agricultural Panel and who sits on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I condemn what was seen last night as totally deplorable and unacceptable.

On behalf of the Government, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, has, since his appointment, led the way on animal welfare issues. I know he has already initiated an investigation in his Department and requested the footage from RTÉ, and I hope that footage is forthcoming. The entire unedited footage that is available to Fran McNulty or RTÉ needs to be made available to the Department. After the recess, when we come back in the autumn, we might ask the Minister to come to the House to brief us on the progress of his investigation. No stone should be left unturned to get to the perpetrators of what we saw last night.

As somebody who represents the agriculture sector, I feel it is important to say that the vast majority - I would say 99.9% - of farmers pride themselves on their husbandry and their love and care for their animals.

Much of what we saw last night was off farm. It is important that we do not jump on bandwagons and take an opportunity to blacken all farmers with the one brush. It has to be noted that the vast majority of the bad coverage, which was almost unwatchable last night, was archive footage from New Zealand and France. That is not taking away from the issues we have in Ireland and that did happen. However, we cannot just whip the agricultural sector today based on what we saw last night.

I join in the condolences to the family of former Minister, Deputy and Senator, Brendan Daly, and his in-laws. We recognise his life of public service. It is important we do that.

I have another issue to raise but I would like to second Senator Wall's remarks on a ban on gambling advertising. I support that entirely and recommend that the Leader should see it is promulgated. Will the Leader speak with the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy James Browne, or indeed the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, to make sure they hold their nerve on the gambling legislation? There have been suggestions in newspapers in recent days that it might be challenged. No matter what money is thrown at obstructing it, I believe the Minister of State and the Minister are serious about it but they must hold their nerve now. I ask the Leader to speak to them so that they are not intimidated by threats of court proceedings or whatever. The right thing is always the right thing.

We have full employment now but a report today states there is underemployment of people with neurological issues such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and so on. The disability sector is under-represented in employment. With full employment and good public finances we now have an opportunity. This is the time when we can do something really good and that is to move on employing disabled people. The same rigour should be brought to that as was brought successfully to reaching full employment. Now we must get full employment for people with disabilities in public services and incentivise it in the private sector to get it to happen. I would like the Leader to commend that. I will speak about this again on another occasion.