Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Senator John Paul Phelan spoke about excess drinking. He also said the structure of the health service has not changed despite its change of name to the Health Service Executive.

Senator McCarthy spoke about the Nigerian student whose telling description of what happened to him when he landed in Lagos was quoted. In addition to being a humanitarian issue, this is wrong in intellectual and academic terms.

Senator Ulick Burke spoke about the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, reforming the third level eligibility criteria. He hopes the Department of Social and Family Affairs will not intervene in that.