Shay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Chair. I offer my apologies because I just had a speaking slot in the Dáil. I had to leave to take it. I express my apologies to the Minister of State too. I do not know if I will take the full six minutes because I was not here to hear what has gone before. If I ask the Minister of State a question he has already answered, he can just advise me of that and I will skip over it. I can watch the playback.

In his opening statement, the Minister of State spoke about consultations planned for June in relation to the Irish diaspora and the diaspora strategy in particular. How is it planned to ensure - and I know it is online - that perhaps less well represented voices are heard? Obviously, it is easy to locate members of the diaspora in the US, UK and other English-speaking countries. There are, however, plenty of other countries that contain pockets of the Irish diaspora. How can their participation be encouraged?