Ms Noelle O'Connell:

I thank Deputy Ó Murchú for those excellent questions and comments. He is absolutely correct. His questions highlight the challenges of polling. I do not have to tell members of this committee that a poll is but a snapshot in time. Interestingly, when we polled on the security and defence question in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 59% of people in Ireland said that Ireland should be part of the EU security and defence co-operation.

As regards the questions, we were really pleased this year that we were able-----