Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I must attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs at 4 p.m. SIPTU is meeting representatives of trade unions in Colombia. Having met them in the country, I would like to be present to pay my respects.

I would like to take up what Senator Dardis said about the complications of this election. I assure him I did not find it complicated. I disagree with everything he said. He said that people in this House would not even understand the system. I stood for election to the Seanad and I understand the system upside down and inside out. I do not agree with him that people in the House would not understand it. Anyone running for the House would do so. It is a mega election to run for and a mega pleasure to win a seat. It is an honour to be here, and I cannot identify with what Senator Dardis said about it being so complicated that people in the House cannot understand it.