Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I support what Senator Daly said about organ transplantation. A Private Members' Bill on the matter was adjourned. I am amazed that we are going ahead without any discussion of the issue. We have looked for the opportunity to discuss it yet new legislation on organ transplants is being imposed without this opportunity for discussion.

I add my words of congratulations regarding yesterday's decision to develop a campus for the Dublin Institute of Technology at Grangegorman and to which Senator Norris referred. This is a very welcome decision and I am pleased that it will go ahead as this move has been announced about six times over recent years. I have a concern about the length of time it takes to get things done in this State. It is very frustrating. The students in the Dublin Institute of Technology have never had the opportunity to vote in the Seanad elections and neither do those in the University of Limerick nor in DCU. It is good news that DCU is now co-operating with the Dundalk Institute of Technology in order to grant degrees. Some very good developments are happening in third level education. However, a referendum was held in 1979 to enable graduates of those institutions to vote in the Seanad elections but it has never happened. I hope the Seanad will not be abolished but if we manage to convince the Government that the Seanad should not be abolished, let us make sure that at least those third level graduates who have been disenfranchised will be given the vote.