Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)
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The Europe 2020 strategy is of importance to Ireland and, hence, to the committee. In July, we published a call for public submissions on the issue and we are pleased with the response. We received a number of submissions. For the Minister of State's information, I note that we have agreed to ask those who made submissions to attend to present them to the committee. That process will take place over the next few weeks and will probably finish by the end of October. We will keep the Minister of State abreast of the outcome of those meetings. I invite the Minister of State to make his opening remarks.