The name Walter Hegarty is not known by many of us in the House. He passed away last night. He was the holder of a distinguished service medal from the Defence Forces which he had won in the Congo in the 1960s. He was one of 155 men who were part of the siege of Jadotville. It has taken us the best part of 50 years to recognise these men. However, we have not recognised them in the way they should have been. Slowly but surely they are passing away and being consigned to history. One of the greatest military achievements of the Defence Forces was at Jadotville. How 155 men were able to hold off 3,500 for a period of time under the command of Commandant Quinlan is studied by soldiers in armies throughout the world. I have spoken to people from Jadotville. One of the saddest things for me was last Thursday night when I attended a lecture in Galway. Sitting behind my left shoulder was a colleague with whom I had served at Renmore barracks in Galway. I never knew he had been in Jadotville. I spoke to Leo Quinlan last night. He did his Ranger training with a former veteran who had served at Jadotville. He never knew that he had been there. Such was their level of hurt and embarrassment because the world's political people decided that what had happened at Jadotville was something about which they did not want to talk. They wanted to bury it. They wanted to forget about it because it had been a total screw-up by politicians in the United Nations. The Minister has gone a long way, as has the Government and the previous one, towards undoing some of the wrongs done, but we have not gone far enough. Commandant Quinlan, the commander at Jadotville, named nine people who were to be awarded medals, but none of the nine was ever awarded his medal. A photocopy of the citation awarded - a unit citation - was given to those living and the relatives of the deceased. That is simply not good enough. There is unfinished work. Senator Mac Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and I have tabled a motion that will be brought to the floor of the House and I hope that, as the Upper House of the Oireachtas, we will come together and support it. I ask that we do so. We cannot allow more Jadotville veterans to pass away forgotten and consigned to a blank history.