Joe O'Toole (Independent)

Senator Carroll's youth will do much to reduce the average age of Members of the House. To give him a kick-start, going back to his student background, I suggest he might like to raise on the Order of Business today the slowness of the Government in bringing forward the student support Bill which is of such interest to the people he left behind in UCD. I ask him to open with that issue. I wish him well and congratulate him on putting himself forward for public representation, not the most popular of choices at this time. My colleagues and I on this side of the House will be more than happy to provide him with any help we can give. He will receive all of the serious advice from here.