Several Senators referred to the visit of my colleague, Mr. Joe McCartin, here yesterday. I have worked with him since I arrived in the European Parliament in 1989. He has served there since 1979. He has been a wonderful and consistent Irish public servant and he is deeply undervalued in this country. I am pleased the Seanad got a chance yesterday to share some of his insights because he has been one of the consistently best, high quality Members elected from this country and, curiously, one of the most consistently ignored in terms of media coverage. It is not for the want of knowledge, wisdom and literacy because he has all those qualities in abundance.