Susan O'Keeffe (Labour)

When we talk about victims sometimes we forget that they are real people. Today we are reminded by these fantastic four young people who won the Imagine Cup yesterday in the United States. They are Áine Conaghan, James McNamara, Calum Cawley and Matthew Padden. They are the future of our country and these are the people on whom we rely and whom we hope will build the future for us. We must do everything to protect our children. When we talk about victims we forget and we group them all together. They are our neighbours and our friends, our sisters and our brothers. They are these young people, effectively. Somewhere in Ireland there are children who had potential like them and now cannot realise it because of what happened to them.

I echo the comments made here and outside the House on the findings of the Cloyne report. I, too, would welcome the opportunity to have a debate on it because we need always to look forward and be reminded that these are the people we need, that the young people of Ireland are our future.

I extend my congratulations to the four young people involved in the project I mentioned. They show what can happen when one can realise one's potential, when one has the opportunity to do so and when people have faith in one. They came together from four different counties, disciplines and classes to put together an idea that could win more than a cup. It could win something for the future of Ireland in terms of how we will build our technology, innovation and research.

I have raised this point before in the House. I ask the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, to come to the House. When I visited the institute of technology recently, I discovered there are grave difficulties in its enterprise unit in terms of small companies trying to get the funding, space and help they need to expand and build on their plans. While we ought to celebrate the four young people today, we have to realise that unless we give real support, not just in terms of money but with creative, intelligent responses in our ITs and universities, this will just be a flash in the pan. There is no doubt that their idea to make drivers safer on the roads will succeed; they have shown it already. I ask the Leader to ask the Minister of State to come into the House to consider whether there are ways in which we can creatively contribute to better ideas locally for supporting ITs to aid the kind of ideas that young people have demonstrated. They are the future of this country.