Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I wish all my colleagues the best of luck. Rather than name everybody individually I wish them, as Senator Liam Fitzgerald said, joy and pleasure and good luck on their odyssey going forward.

I wish to draw attention to a significant event which took place on 8 July 1927, the day Senator Maurice Hayes was born. He will be 80 years of age next Sunday. As I have been the proponent and the visionary on a new approach to ageing and ageism I wish him a happy birthday. He is an icon North and South.