I am glad that Michael D. Higgins has at last announced his candidacy. I hope there will be a contest and an election as I believe it is important for the office of President. I might find myself voting for him if he is the best candidate but the people who are on the wireless all the time should stop farting about and should start looking for nominations. It would show that they are serious about it.

In respect of the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davis, I am absolutely delighted they are gone. Mrs. May should have fired them long ago as they are useless. As Senator Bacik pointed out yesterday, Boris Johnson made a complete and utter bags of his resignation letter. He put in two paragraphs blackguarding the European Union for preventing him, as Lord Mayor of London, from introducing regulations that would have affected the windows of articulated lorries and the placing of mirrors when, in fact, it was the British Tory Government that prevented it and the proposal actually came from the European Union. What an idiot. Now he is up the creek polishing one of his own little turds, to use his own words. I laughed at him when he said the poor United Kingdom would be a colony. It is about bloody time. It colonised three quarters of the rest of the world so they might have a lash at what it feels like to be a colony. I am half English but I am bloody delighted.

Will the Senator say that to Harry?

I will say that to Prince Harry. I am one of the few people in this House who received an invitation, in deference to my strong royalist sympathies.

If Senator Conway does not interrupt again, I will call on him to speak.

I also welcome the clarification from Áras an Uachtaráin this morning that President Higgins will seek a second term. It is inevitable that we will have a presidential election.

Good.

We need an ethical presidential election because many presidential elections in recent times have descended into a farce.

Hear, hear.

I refer to what happened with RTÉ's "The Frontline". I call on the Standards in Public Office Commission to have another look at the guidelines for presidential elections because they seem to be very dirty elections. It should not be like that and it does not have to be.

Hear, hear.

It does not do anything for the dignity of the office of President to have a campaign of skulduggery, so it is time the Standards in Public Office Commission brought out firm guidelines on managing it and on making it clear what should and should not be done, and what can and cannot be done.

Well said.

We have had a great period of sunshine and tourism is doing exceptionally well. Tourism is our oil and our gas, with our scenery and our people being our greatest natural resource. I would like a debate with the Minister with responsibility for tourism on a long-term strategy. We need significant capital investment in tourism because we do not get this weather too often. We need to ensure we have a tourism infrastructure that is not weather-dependent and embraces the different weather we have by giving people the opportunity to have a great experience irrespective of the weather.