Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the answer. The Commission has already shown its want and ability to address situations as they arise. That needs to happen with respect to the Irish protocol. Irish unity is something that is on the agenda. At some point in time, it will need to be planned for. The European Union has allowed for a situation where if there is a vote on Irish unity, the North, as part of whatever the new Ireland would look like, could come directly into the European Union.

It is something that will be on the agenda from here on, and I believe there will be an element of planning relating to that in the short to medium term.

The Commissioner probably fielded some questions earlier about the €1 billion this State got. Obviously, on some level, there is unease about the means by which it was determined how much money would go to each state. The way it was calculated and probably the amount of FDI threw up an anomaly regarding numbers in this State whereby we ended up with €1 billion, which seems quite a small amount. Can anything be done in the future to address that because if we are talking across the board about fiscal stimulus, and as the Commissioner said, concentrated investment was required, I would not like to think that this State would lose out?