David Norris (Independent)

Indeed I do. However, I am developing my connections with County Waterford. I do not have just national aspirations, I have presidential aspirations. The phenomenon of discovering connections with various parts of the country is one with which the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, will be quite familiar, particularly as his late father was quite an adept in that regard.

Recognition of the work of Waterford Institute of Technology, a matter about which Senator Quinn waxed so eloquently, is worth considering. We need creativity, ingenuity and the capacity to improvise new ideas. In that context, there is no university in the south-east and it is time that changed.