Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I join in welcoming the witnesses and note that what their organisation does is very important and impressive. I was personally involved with the all-Ireland scouting centre at Castle Saunderson and helped those involved to prepare and fight their case to get SEUPB funding. They were very successful. I visited it recently and the output and product there, what it has done, is impressive. It is an enormous facility with huge implications for community building and for young people's lives. It is a great example of what the SEUPB does. The whole list there is very impressive.

A couple of things struck me. Did the SEUPB do much of a marketing job during the campaign on what it does? Was there much of a focus on its work? The organisation goes under the radar a bit and when it is received it is taken for granted. Is there a deficit there in the marketing of the organisation's project and product in the popular sense? Crystal-ball gazing is not in the witnesses' brief and neither they nor any of us know what is likely to happen post Brexit when it comes to replacing the organisation. Have the witnesses a view on that or on what will happen? It will be a huge loss if the SEUPB and these kind of activities are not replaced.