Michael Kitt (Fianna Fail)

I join in the tributes to you, a Chathaoirligh, and the staff, and particularly to John McCabe who played a great role in the committee system when it was in Kildare House where circumstances were more difficult than they are now.

I support Senator O'Toole's comments on students who did not receive their junior certificates. If 906 students did not get certificates in 2001, I wonder how many students did not get them in other years. There must be hundreds of certificates gathering dust in the Department of Education and Science. It is an important certificate that should be given to students. I hope we will have an opportunity in the new year to discuss this issue and to find out how many more students have not received their junior certificates.