Arising from the Taoiseach's reply, in relation to the youth section which has for the last five or six years been in the Department of Education, will the Taoiseach confirm that that Department have now certain expertise which has built up under Ministers Tunney, Keating and Geoghegan-Quinn? Will that expertise transfer en bloc to be a new section within the Department of Labour?

Provisions are in train to give effect at administrative level to the transfer of functions.

This section have done great honour to this House in that they have been very successful in their job. In my view and that of my party the proper Department to which this should be related is the Department of Education. It would be sad if the expertise built up by the administration in that Department was now to go.

The Deputy is making a submission rather than asking a question.