Mr. Maurice Pratt:

I agree almost entirely with Senator Alice-Mary Higgins' comments which are on the money. It is important that the mandate for phase 2 of the Brexit negotiations go back to citizens because they will consider what will happen in this matter since where it ends will affect their future. On defence, the Senator is correct in saying Ireland has a skill set in peace building and diplomacy and that we ought to look to our natural skill sets and offer them in the context of whatever the European Union will look like in the future.