I am sure the Leader will convey the Senator's good wishes and advice to the Taoiseach.

I had better begin with Senator Wilson's final remark. I share his views that the Taoiseach is and has been a strong, prolific leader of our people across the world stage. As Senator Wilson well knows, being in government is a difficult task and some Members of the House need to understand that one cannot say yes or no all the time. One has to have a bit of steel and a bit of bottle. The Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, has been a tremendous Taoiseach. I hope-----

Has been.

If I could finish the sentence, I hope he will remain as Taoiseach in the immediate future so that we can have a strong hand at the tiller in the Brexit negotiations. We should learn from other parties. We do not just anoint people. In both of the main parties we have a process to elect and select people not an anointment in a backroom.

Fine Gael does not even have an Ard-Fheis.

We have them too.

Good. Fine Gael calls it a conference not an Ard-Fheis.

Their council meets and decides.

I say to Senator Wilson that as he is well aware, democratic centralism is alive and well in some parties. It is uno duce, una voce in some places, unlike our party. I thank the Senator for his kind remarks.