John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

The proposal is agreed to.

I ask colleagues to join me in extending a very warm welcome to our Commissioner, Michael McGrath, who has joined us in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery today. Commissioner McGrath, in his role as European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection, has just come from a meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs and is visiting Leinster House today with a delegation that comprises his Cabinet officials and Mr. Peter Power, head of the European Commission representation in Ireland. The Commissioner is very welcome. We were delighted to have him here for the part of the debate with the Minister for agriculture on our fight in Europe. He is very welcome to a gathering with which he is very familiar. I thank him very much.

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