I, too, join my colleagues in lamenting the passing of Mr. Derek Davis. I also agree with what Senator Paschal Mooney has just said. It is not the function of the Taoiseach to apologise for the actions of terrorists who acted on the soil of this country.

I wish to raise two issues. The first is that of Balbriggan community school which my colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, has represented well in this House and I know that he will continue to do so. However, the time has come for a debate in this House on the school building programme and how it is being run. We simply cannot have a school being promised something one day and, as it were, having the rug pulled out from under it the next.

Yesterday I was listening to the news. It is no secret around here that I recently became a grandfather. I started to hear stories about the appalling maternity services in this country. Part of me was slightly horrified that we would talk about these things on the day parents lost a child. There is clearly a huge problem in the health service. I cannot begin to understand what any young expectant mother facing a maternity hospital in the next couple of months is thinking with all the talk about disastrous services. The time has come for us to review what the HSE does. We have one layer too many in the health service. We need to get rid of the HSE and bring health back into the Minister's Department where he would take first-hand responsibility. I am not for one moment condemning him. He is doing an excellent job, in fairness to him. However, he will say himself that he is running to keep up. It is time that this House which has the time to discuss and debate what exactly has gone wrong since we introduced the HSE had that debate.