Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have one point to put to Mr. Donnelly before we go any further. Gay Mitchell did a quiz book of Irish politics in 1990 and he did a follow-up in 1994. One of the first questions in the 1994 publication was "What is psephology?". His explanation was that it was the sociological and statistical analysis of election counts and trends. In my experience there is only one person who has referenced most elections in recent years in this country and that is Seán Donnelly. I thank him very much for that and for his contribution this afternoon.