Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 26 April 2021

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Responses to Brexit in Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Photo of Lisa ChambersLisa Chambers (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister now has an extra job to take away with him. There is no better man than Senator Ó Donnghaile to come forward with some suggestions on that issue.

All members who have sought to contribute have done so. I thank the Minister for his time this afternoon. It has been a most interesting engagement and we have covered many topics. We definitely went beyond the scope of the agenda. I thank the Minister for facilitating that. When we have a Minister in front of us, we tend to go off target a bit, but the Minister has been really candid in his responses and has given members a lot to think about. Certainly, the discussion we have just had will form part of the report which we will publish before the summer recess.

If there are no other issues from members, I propose to bring our meeting to a close. The next public meeting will be on Monday, 10 May and will commence at 3 p.m., when we will be hearing from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Revenue Commissioners and the HSE about their work at our ports and facilitating access due to Brexit. I thank the members, the Minister and members of the public.

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