I thank the Chair for his nice tribute to Brian O'Shea. Something that was probably not alluded to in his few words and is not known about Brian is that he was a very low-level advocate for the people who were in the St. Phelim Aer Lingus disaster of March 1968, when over 60 people died when their flight from Cork to Heathrow went down just off Tuskar Rock, Wexford. This happened long before most of the Members of this House were born. Brian, because of the proximity of the accident, took a particular interest in it and collected a huge amount of material through personal research. I am just hoping that his family will take care to pass on his notes and research. Brian had serious misgivings about security work that was being done off the Irish coast by the Royal Navy at the time. It was firing up drones that were used for target practice. There was, as they say, a lot of uisce faoi thalamh about the disaster. I believe 61 people went down with the aircraft.

Brian was a very committed educationalist, as was Eileen, his wife. John is also involved in education. I believe other members of the family are as well. John had the misfortune of being one of my former pupils in Hibernia College, but notwithstanding that, he qualified summa cum laude. I pass on the condolences of the House to his lovely family in Tramore.