Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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It is very good to see the parents were interested because I would have an element of interest in that myself. As I said before, our Turlough, my 14-year-old, is autistic. He had glue ear. We thought it was language delay initially. We then went through the chicken-and-egg processes as to what caused what. You go through a whole pile of reasons and you are then seeing a great deal more cases. You then become far more aware of it and ask why. The research, obviously, is completely necessary.

Research in respect of mitigations across the board will make life easier for him. I am up for whatever works on some level. I am into buying into this, and I will not pretend I have any great understanding of genetic sequencing. I did, once, for a thesis. I had to do some sort of comparators in respect of varying types. I then tried to build an agent architecture to distribute it across a network and carry out genetic sequencing. It worked all right with virtual machines and, when I put it together with networks, I may have had to rig the system to get the result I needed. I can probably say that now because-----