Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I hope we will fill the two vacancies in the Seanad while we are at it. I ask the Leader to fill those vacancies as soon as possible. I compliment Michael Somers, the former head of the NTMA, who appeared on "The Week in Politics" with Seán O'Rourke on Sunday night, for his honest assessment of where Fianna Fáil was in 1985 when Charles Haughey was Leader of the Opposition, Ray MacSharry was spokesperson on finance and I was a Member.