Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Core Working Group for the All-Island Cancer Research Institute

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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We are the only Oireachtas committee with members from outside the southern parliament, for want of a better want, so we have MPs from the North as well. Not quite every party but most parties are represented here today so it is a significant opportunity for us to work together and run with the witnesses' agenda within our spheres to make sure we all have the same aim and it goes to the top of our agenda. We agreed earlier that I will call in this rotation. Each party can nominate its own speakers, as always.

It will be Fianna Fáil first, followed by Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, SDLP, Alliance, Aontú and the Independents, and then Sinn Féin, Labour and the Green Party. That accommodates everybody, North and South. I ask the Fianna Fáil speakers to identify themselves as some members are attending remotely. I see Deputy Brendan Smith and Senators Blaney and McGreehan. I will call the Louth woman first, Senator McGreehan.