Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)
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The Minister of State has covered the main points. I thank him for attending today and I believe he will return in a few weeks for a discussion before a meeting of the General Affairs Council in mid-October. At that stage I hope we will be able to present some of the work we have done recently. We are awaiting publication of the report that the committee is doing on voting rights, resulting from the criticism by the Commission approximately six months ago. We are also awaiting the report on the future of Europe, which we hope to publish in approximately three weeks.

We are all delighted to see the progress made by the former Minister of State with responsibility for European Affairs, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and we wish him well in his new job. Perhaps the Minister of State could pass on our congratulations to him.