I welcome our colleague, Senator Freeman, back to the House. She played a very important role in the presidential election. She highlighted Pieta House and mental health and all the work she is involved in. She has done the State some service. She came back with her dignity intact. She was an excellent candidate. As Senator Norris did, I congratulate President Michael D. Higgins. He has been an excellent President. I had the benefit of him lecturing me for two years in an extramural course in the 1970s. He was very inspirational. He was so inspirational that I got into the Dáil four years before him. That is a great achievement for him.

I compliment all the candidates, Peter Casey, Liadh Ní Riada, Seán Gallagher, Senator Freeman and Gavin Duffy who participated in the campaign. It was a tough campaign. I had sympathy for Peter Casey on "The Late Late Show" on Friday night because he was up against one of the most seasoned broadcasters, Ryan Tubridy. Perhaps politicians should not go into that arena because it is not a current affairs programme, it is more of an entertainment programme. He put his case forward. It is fair enough. It was an election. It is democracy. We should be very proud that we had an election.

We should express our thanks to Senator Craughwell who led the campaign to have an election. It is better all round that there was an election. It puts President Michael D. Higgins in a much stronger position. He was elected with nearly 850,000 first preference votes. Next Sunday when we all go to his inauguration in Dublin Castle, we will see a man who went before the people and was elected. All the candidates put a lot of effort into the campaign and deserve our appreciation.

People do not realise the contribution the President has made in the past seven years. He was the first Irish President ever to go on an official state visit to the United Kingdom. He addressed the Council of Europe. He was extremely good. Senator Norris, who campaigned in 2011, also did the State some service and got a tremendous vote in that election.

I join with Senator Norris. We need a debate now that the campaign is over. I congratulate President Higgins on his re-election. It is right and proper that he was re-elected by the people, not by the people in this House alone.

Tony O'Brien was reported to have made some horrendous statements about the Minister for Health over the weekend. If he had something to say about the Minister for Health why the hell did he not say it while he was in office? Why did he let the Minister approach the doors of the Dáil in the debate on the cervical cancer scandal and leave him with certain information at the last moment? Mr. O'Brien should have taken his package and walked away quietly and left the Government and the Minister alone.

I am no spokesman for either but I cannot abide people who stab others in the back on the way out. That is precisely what Mr. O'Brien did at the weekend in his interview with The Sunday Business Post.

It is not all good news for the Government. What right does the Government of Ireland have to instruct Óglaigh na hÉireann to use the Government logo on any promotional video produced? An excellent letter by Michael Heery from North King Street in Dublin deals with this issue. He deals not only with the illegality of it but with how it is in contravention of the Geneva Convention to mix the civilian and military logos. Somebody somewhere needs to sit down and have a look at this. What we are seeing here is a display of utter ignorance on the part of the civilian secretariat of the State with respect to the importance of the military logo versus the Government logo. This has to stop. Óglaigh na hÉireann is not there to represent the Government in any way. It is there to serve the country and its people. I would like the Leader to convey my dismay, and the dismay of many people in Óglaigh na hÉireann, at it being forced to use a logo that has no place in its promotional videos.