David Norris (Independent)

I would like to say with overpowering irrelevance that I was charmed to be mentioned by Senator Ó Brolcháin in his earlier contribution. As Oscar Wilde said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. However, I point out I have spoken passionately in earlier debates on the subject. My mother's family, the Mac Giolla Phádraig - Fitzpatrick - family planted all over the Slieve Bloom mountains and because of their obsession with trees turn up in James Joyce's Ulysses. I felt I had to restore the family name, however irrelevant it is.