Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the students of Holy Child Secondary School, Killiney. They are most welcome to Seanad Éireann today and I am sure Senators Barry Ward and Victor Boyhan and the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, also welcome them. I make particular mention of Ciara O'Kelly, who is the daughter of a friend of mine from our days at Bolton Street College of Technology. Caitriona O'Kelly would know all the stories of our time in Bolton Street but, thankfully, it was a time before social media so there is no evidence of anything that ever actually happened. They are all just rumours and none of them are facts. Ciara, who plays hockey for Holy Child Secondary School, and her classmates are most welcome, and I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, for bringing them here today. There is an unwritten rule in Seanad Éireann that there is no homework for any visiting school for the rest of the week, so I hope they abide by the ruling of the Seanad.