Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister. I sympathise with him, because not for the first time, he has drawn the short straw.

I stated on the Order of Business that the supposed amendment to the motion is a subterfuge. There is no commitment in the programme for Government with regard to the reintroduction of tuition fees. I heard the able Senators Fitzgerald and Ormonde do their best – they are good debaters – but they cannot make something out of nothing.