Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the ambassador and the delegation. We enjoyed the interaction yesterday. It was extremely educational. We did not have enough time to go through everything. One funny thing is that today is an historic day. The delegation is part of history. It is the first time we have had a delegation from another petitions committee meet our petitions committee. It is now on the record. We will all get a little congratulatory star in our copybooks. I hope we can continue this and learn fast. We learned a lot of things that would probably cause the Ceann Comhairle to have a heart attack if we implemented them, such as the way we invite witnesses and so on.

I thank the delegation sincerely. Go raibh míle maith agaibh. As we say in Cork, it is nice and fresh out there today. I hope the delegation are enjoying the weather they are used to. It is a grand fresh day.