I acknowledge the passing of one of our former colleagues, former Senator Jimmy Mulroy, who served in the Seanad between 1987 and 1989 and served as Mayor of Drogheda and a member of Louth County Council for a number of years. Presumably, there will be formal tributes in due course, but he was an honest and successful man in business and in sport and I express my sympathy to his family and friends all round the north east. He played a huge role in every field, football, business and politics, and will be deeply missed.