Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Commissioner for her presentation and I congratulate her belatedly on her appointment. I will stress two areas. First, I will pick up on the Commissioner's closing remarks in her intervention on Brexit. I do not want to get into specifics of negotiations or anything that is going on. As it pertains to her portfolio, what may come about after 31 December in terms of the strategy for European Union financial services, given the opportunities and challenges that Brexit presents? Where can EU member states fill the gap or begin to compete with the City of London? I will come back to the second question.