I thank Senator Lawlor for his brevity.

I welcome today's announcement that there will be an extensive exhumation of bodies at the Tuam mother and baby home. The remains will be forensically examined and, most importantly, there will then be a respectful burial. This issue has been widely debated and discussed. I understand the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, presented the proposal to Cabinet this morning. It is the right decision and the Minister deserves our full support.

I raised previously the need to establish a central database for unidentified human remains.

Today it was announced a body discovered over 17 years ago, washed up on Quay Island in County Clare, was identified as being that of a person reported missing a number of months previously. He was reported missing in February 2001. I may be wrong on the dates, but the body was discovered a number of months later. There was no identification until recently. The family had to wait for 17 years for a decision on this matter. I have given a detailed proposal to the Minister for Justice and Equality for a central database in the country for unidentified remains in order that there would be a co-ordinated effort on information on missing persons and human remains. This has not been done. Each coroner's area keeps the information and there is no connection between one coroner's area and another. We need to do this. I ask the Leader to again raise this matter with the Minister for Justice and Equality. I had a Commencement matter dealt with, but I do not believe we should delay in bringing forward this proposal.

I raise the matter also raised by other Members of structural issues in Ardgillan community college and some 29 other colleges. We should not be in this position. I had the Minister in the House earlier today to address accommodation issues in Rush and Skerries when he alluded to this problem in Ardgillan community college too. We have new schools built in the last ten years and find that some of them are not safe.

I understand there was a failure in this instance to ensure sufficient ties between the outer and inner walls. If that is true, it is gross neglect. The builder has to be held to account and no further contract should issue to that builder until the full facts are available and the costs recovered. One wonders if there are other buildings outside the 30 identified that could have other problems due to this old pre-2014 habit of builders certifying the buildings themselves through their own agent. We need to look at new regulations from 2014 and ensure there are no other loopholes that would allow this sort of behaviour.

I thank the Minister and the Department of Education and Skills for acting so swiftly to protect children and teachers from an unsafe building. Children are our future and they are getting the best education from excellent teaching staff. Both children and teachers are entitled to a safe and excellent environment to allow teachers to give children the best education to prepare them to compete in a very challenging and modern world. I will continue to work for the parents and children of Dublin Fingal to ensure there is adequate, safe accommodation for students. I will be very happy to work with the Minister to ensure we achieve this goal. There is no point in having a situation where people, having fought long and hard to have accommodation provided for their children at school, find that the accommodation is not safe.