Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Rt. Hon. Lord John McFall will address the House in accordance with the order of Seanad Éireann on 28 September. I ask him to come to the floor of the Seanad.

It is my pleasure to welcome Lord McFall to Ireland, to Leinster House and to the Chamber of Seanad Éireann. We look forward to his address. His great-grandfather left County Tyrone for Scotland many years ago. Countless Irish people left that county to go to the United States, including the ancestor of Woodrow Wilson. If Lord McFall's great-grandfather had gone west instead of east he might be addressing us as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, given his very clear political skill and acumen. Maybe he would be addressing as President of the United States, if things had worked out differently.