Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is the one thing I would urge. Whatever else the Minister of State may set out to achieve, taking the report and making it happen will be something that he has our support for and it is something I would like to see.

I am grateful to him for his support of the Yeats 2015 celebration. It would be remiss of me not to mention Yeats. As much as he can talk about football, I can talk about Yeats. We have found there is a great deal of cultural involvement by communities across Ireland. Last weekend I was in Wicklow and then I drove to Sligo to celebrate Yeats in both places on the same day. About 80 events, at a minimum, are happening around the world which has been achieved with the assistance of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Culture Ireland and others. It is another opportunity for us to share and invite others into the celebration of something that is very important to us. The Minister of State has assisted us in that matter and we look forward to seeing him at other events later on in the year. Yeats 2015 is a great opportunity, in Ireland, to celebrate cultural wealth and heritage and contemporary cultural wealth which is extraordinary over the course of the year. I enjoyed hearing the young Yeats Cup performers who participated in Feis Shligigh at the weekend. Even though the performers were aged between 14 and 18 they gave extraordinary renditions of complex Yeats poetry. That proves that there is a new generation always coming through who wants to take his poetry with them. We have a great future and there is a lot happening.

I commend what the Minister of State has done. Above all we look forward to the direct provision report being a game-changer and that he would be the player in achieving same.