Paula Butterly (Louth, Fine Gael)

I was interested to read this. For anyone who likes a statistic or a graph, it rocks your boat at times. I thank Ms O'Connell for that.

I am interpreting, perhaps incorrectly, the curious contradiction that over 80% want to remain in Europe and yet we feel that only 30% believe that their views are adequately represented at EU level. Does Ms O'Connell have any background information on that or could she dig a little bit deeper in that regard? We are satisfied overall in being a member of the EU and yet we feel that our views are not being represented properly.

As Ms Hayes was talking about the green deal, the green deal was at an EU level to drill down towards the EU members, whereas perhaps the most important matters to people within the European community are the cost of living and migration and, therefore, maybe we are at loggerheads in representing the European constituents. I would like to hear the witnesses' views on that.

On the other side, I was happy to see that when it comes to EU enlargement, it is very positive, and particularly with the younger demographic. It was among those aged 18 to 24 that it rose as far as 67%. That is positive. Is there any further information as to why they are so positive with a view to enlargement?