Neale Richmond (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The committee I chair, by and large, stopped its public sessions after publishing a very detailed report on Brexit in the summer of last year. However, subsequent to that, we have had dozens of engagements with other parliamentary committees and delegations from across the EU on Brexit and while I would like to discuss our meetings with UK delegations and perhaps the ongoing chaos there, I do not think we have any control over that. Our meetings with the remaining 26 member states' committees have been very positive and very reassuring. The solidarity we have seen from the other 26 member states has been quite surprising to some people but very reassuring. On a Government level, how many engagements have there been with others outside of the European Council framework? Have there been bilateral engagements with other Ministers and other Heads of State? Is there that level of solidarity now that we are entering into a trickier period in the negotiations? Will it be sustained and maintained?