David Norris (Independent)

We should have a debate on the specific issue of the space programme. Other cheap shots were made about spacers, Disneyland and the like, but that is rubbish. One of the problems with this country is that we are not at the forefront of science. One of the initiatives Mr. Molloy was trying to progress was to push Ireland forward in that area at Cape Canaveral. We have been involved in space research. Experiments have been undertaken with flights into space from Cape Canaveral. I am involved in a project with Leo Enright and Martin Keane, a businessman, to get Irish students into the International Space University. That is where we need to get them.