Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
4:00 pm
Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I restate that it is important for us to engage with the institutions in the new year. I know the secretariat and the secretariat of our Department are discussing whether to send a group from this committee to meet MEPs and some other interested partners, either in Brussels or Strasbourg, whichever is more appropriate. Ideally, that should happen in advance of the triggering of Article 50. It could be quite a small group but ideally it would be cross-party. We could meet people from other parties, go into their working environment and make the points we are all making here. I hope we can agree a date in due course.