With my colleague, Senator John O'Mahony, I extend sympathy to the family of Anthony Foley. It has been a time of disbelief and shock for people in counties Limerick and Clare. Anthony Foley embodied everything that was good about Irish rugby, particularly Munster rugby. Looking back, he had something in common with Brian Ború. He was very much the Brian Ború of Munster rugby. Brian Ború also came from and lived in Killaloe, just like Anthony Foley. The overall loss to the people of Limerick, the Munster region and Ireland pales into insignificance next to the loss to his wife, children and wider family. He was a young man of 42 years with a wife and two young children. I can only imagine how difficult it is for them. I extend our sympathy to them and acknowledge, with my colleagues in the House, what Anthony Foley stood for - loyalty, commitment and, above anything else, being a brilliant player. It was said he was a little short of pace. I recognised that case, but he made up for it with skill and by being in the right place at the right time.

I want to speak about the relocation of the Seanad. I listened with interest this morning on the radio to the former director of the National Museum of Ireland, Dr. Pat Wallace. We need clarity on several questions about the relocation of the Seanad. First, when and to where are we moving? Are there implications for public services if the Seanad is to be relocated to the National Museum of Ireland? When someone of Dr. Wallace's stature goes on "Morning Ireland", we, as a body, need to deal with it.

On behalf of our Seanad team, I echo the words of sympathy to the Mallon clan on the loss of Gertrude. Go ndéana Dia a mhaith uirthi.

Ahead of the debate tomorrow on the Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill, will the Leader ensure we will have an interpreter in the Chamber to facilitate those groups and organisations which will be represented here?

We heard from previous speakers about the imminent, live and tangible negative impacts Brexit was having on the mushroom industry. Pivotal as it is, that industry is not alone in feeling the sharp end of this decision by England to take the rest of us out of the European Union against our will. It is a matter I have consistently raised, with many other Members from a broad range of political opinion, on the floor of this Chamber. As outlined eloquently and passionately by the previous speaker, we are continually being told by the Government that it is working through the issue, that there is something down the line, that it will come back to it, that it is investigating it and that it is working with ministerial colleagues in London. At this stage, the long and short of it is that is not good enough as it is not having any impact. The first interest of the Seanad and the Government has to be the welfare of Ireland and the people. The reality is that the people, in every corner of the country, not least in Border communities, are feeling the negative impacts of Brexit, as they have been for the past month and they will continue to feel them and will probably feel them much worse and sharper in the coming months and years. It was unbelievable that yesterday in the Stormont Assembly in the North a motion seeking to assert the Assembly's wish to have special EU status granted for the North was actually lost because two MLAs who aligned themselves with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the boys. The two Brexiteer MLAs who allegedly represent People Before Profit but who it seems are more Brexit Before People in this case allowed the motion to be lost. While some Members may laugh, it is a serious matter as the people are feeling it, angry and disappointed that two MLAs who profess to be champions of the people have allowed the democratic wishes of the people in the North to be subverted and dismissed in such a fashion. The message needs to go very clearly from here that, regardless, this Chamber stands for the well-being of Ireland, the democratic wishes of the people in the North and the retention of all of the island of Ireland within the European Union.