Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I should have said that Senator Byrne is a member of the Fianna Fáil Party, which is one of the Government parties. The next speaker is Senator Emer Currie, who issued the invitation to the mayor on behalf of the Seanad and was part of the parliamentary delegation, with the Ceann Comhairle and our colleague, Senator Paul Daly, that visited Japan in February of last year.