Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The next session will be to hear a statement from the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, on the Irish Government's view of the prospects for UK-EU relations. I welcome the Minister of State to the meeting. The committee has been holding a series of meetings on the possibility of so-called, BrExit, the possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The committee visited London last Monday and Tuesday when we met with the Minister of State's counterpart, Mr. Lidington and a number of MPs and Members of the House of Lords. We met members of the Irish community at an event hosted by the Irish ambassador, Mr. Mulhall.

I invite the Minister of State to make his opening statement.