During the Order of Business in the Seanad, I said: I support Senator McFadden’s comments on today’s 1916 commemoration ceremony. I have attended it on several occasions but found this year’s event to be particularly moving because of the remarks of the Bishop of Down and Connor, the Rev. Noel Treanor...

Every time he mentioned “education” he also mentioned “research”. The success we enjoyed in the economy was due to a number of factors, of which research was one but it played an important part.

Unfortunately, it no longer appears to be at the leading edge of education.

We discuss second and third level but we should also be speaking about fourth level education because that is what gave us our advantage.