Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I wish to correct the record. I have just checked and on 1 January 2021, a statement was issued from me in regard to the Brexit negotiations. I do not know where the Minister is getting the two weeks from. There were also a range of parliamentary questions submitted before and after that date to the Minister and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, including a question on what efforts the Minister for Foreign Affairs made when he engaged with the French minister, which was critical to these negotiations. I understand he received a briefing from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That was the Minister for Foreign Affairs. There is no evidence he ever actually delivered that briefing to the minister. I was very busy before and after that and I am very happy to work with the Minister moving forward, just to clarify all of that.