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

The only mistake Mr. O'Brien, Ms Agrawal and Mr. Galvin made was that they did not get into ponderous meandering. We are not quite used to synopsised, short narrative. They will also discover very quickly that I am not used to it myself. They have dealt with a fair amount. The big issue to which we should be listening, as Deputy Howlin said, is the idea of engagement. Ms Agrawal got it there in that Brexit, the pandemic and the illegal invasion by Russia of Ukraine, have probably shown us the absolute necessity of Europe and co-operation, if people had any doubts beforehand. Mr. Galvin was talking about Bill digests which tells a tale that the members of Comhairle na nÓg are probably outliers. Deputy Richmond, I and others were involved in the Conference on the Future of Europe. I completely understand making a considerable number of points and none of them making it on to paper and being utterly disregarded. That conference became a better process as it went on. It made many mistakes. Were the witnesses even aware of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the meetings and Ireland's engagements at it? Were they aware it was happening to any degree?