I do not want to add to the Cathaoirleach's troubles but I fully support the comments of Senator Malcolm Byrne and other colleagues. I have been a Member of this House for 16 years and have always restrained myself when it comes to comments about the Lower House or Áras an Uachtaráin.

As a veteran, I hope the Senator will maintain that level of equanimity during his contribution.

I will certainly not cross any lines. All I will say is that it cannot continue like this. If this kind of thing continues, it will test the Cathaoirleach, the Ceann Comhairle and the whole body politic. That is the feeling of the people on the ground, despite the group on the left who think they can cheer on anything that is said. We have a Constitution. We have had great Presidents and none has crossed the line.

Hear, hear. Up until now.

I know that Senator Craughwell is trying to provoke the Chair. I remind him of the rulings of successive-----

I would never do that to the Cathaoirleach.

-----Cathaoirligh on the matter. That position is unchanged and will remain so during my time as Cathaoirleach.

My time is almost gone. I will briefly draw the Deputy Leader's attention - I am sure she is aware of the matter - to the announcement today by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and a number of Ministers of the shared island cross-Border funding to expand Ulster University's Derry campus.

This is grant aid from our Exchequer to support the Derry university to the tune of €56 million. This is a very significant investment in the youth of the country and a very important step forward in the normalisation of politics on this island. We have seen too much of the orange versus green and of the cant and rhetoric. The Tánaiste started this two years ago and he received a very faint welcome but I am delighted to see that the Taoiseach and the whole Government are rowing in 100% behind it. It is starting to click in and the effects are there to be seen.

I was very disappointed that a prominent director of a group that calls itself Ireland's Future, in referring to the shared island unit, said it was small potatoes. These people have been talking themselves into a corner for the past three years and I do not see any potatoes.

They are overboiled at this stage, I inform the Senator, because his time is up. I call Senator Kyne.