Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

I was particularly struck by the grandparents and parents of young graduates whom I met last week when the Seanad did not sit. There are three graduates in one family, highly qualified solicitors and psychologists, with no hope. They are in pain and are now seeking passports to travel. I ask the Leader to ask the Ministers, Deputy Mary Coughlan and Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to present solutions to this House so we can keep our graduates in this country. Our country has invested in these graduates, as have their parents, but now we are prepared to let them go. We fervently state education is the way forward, but yet we are prepared to throw it all away so easily. It is time we looked to the hope of the young generation and invested in keeping them here.