Maria Byrne (Fine Gael)
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I thank the Minister of State for coming before the committee and for his opening statement. I met one of the people born the year of accession. They are all 50 now because we are 50 years in Europe. I happened to meet one of them yesterday who was absolutely thrilled and produced the coin and showed me the transcription on it. The person was thrilled to be acknowledged today by the Government. I thank the Minister of State for this. The person was very excited. It is somebody who is not political but somebody I happened to meet yesterday.

The Tánaiste has issued an instruction on reducing to zero the number of fines relating to directives before we take up the Presidency in 2026.

Has work started on that? Is the Minister of State confident that we will reach our targets by the time 2026 comes? As far as I am aware, we are after Lithuania. I assume we are already working with Lithuania on preparations towards 2026.