Neale Richmond (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a question before I ask Ms King to make her final remarks. I fully agree we have lost social Europe. It is not what it was in the 1980s and is not what it should be. It is one of the great challenges. As a politician of a certain persuasion, I do not believe the EU should be solely an economic ideal going forward. The eighth term of reference in the report is on the future of Europe. How do we guarantee the future of Europe, the viability of the European Union and the real viability of Ireland remaining within the European Union? A number of speakers have said we should just leave although obviously, I am not one of them. On that aspect of social Europe, can Ms King expand briefly on what concrete measures we could take in the next five to ten years to copperfasten and reinvigorate our commitment to a social Europe?