Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)

I join in welcoming the Minister of State to a House that is familiar to him as he started his national political career here. I wish him luck in his first ministry. He is following in the footsteps of former Taoisigh and Ministers but I have no doubt he will do so without difficulty. The Department of Education and Science, and those who depend on it for adult and community education and youth affairs, will be much richer for this appointment.