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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I ask Mr. Ahern to reply whenever he is ready.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I wish to draw people’s attention to the fact we have access to the room until approximately 12.30 p.m. We have had substantial and interesting contributions. A number of other people wish to come in and I am conscious of the fact we have about 30 or 35 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: It was not. I promise the Deputy it was not. I just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I apologise. I assure the Deputy it was not that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy put a wide range of questions to Mr. Ahern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Ahern. To show Deputy Ó Murchú that it was not just him, I am going to reiterate my reminder that it is now 12.10 p.m. Members might stay within the time if they can. Senator Keogan is up next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: On that point, it is necessary to have two parties willing to engage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: Unfortunately, what we have clearly and patently seen is a British Government that is manifestly different from the one with which Mr. Ahern dealt. It is very difficult for our State, which still believes implicitly in the values of the Good Friday Agreement and everything it created, to be dealing now with something that is fundamentally different from the situation in the past. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: That is shocking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I am conscious of other members wishing to speak. As a committee, we have seen the bond Mr. Ahern referred to, whereby Ireland and Britain worked together in so many ways in the European context and strengthened each other by way of our involvement in Europe. The loss of that engagement, arising out of Brexit, has never really been calculated. For Ireland, it is a loss equal to that of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Ahern and call Senator Martin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I wish to add one thing that I thought was interesting. On a recent visit to Brussels, we talked to the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union. We then effectively met the Northern Ireland Office. It does an inter-staff transfer to facilitate that deepening of ties and understanding. Somebody from the Northern Ireland Office works in the perm rep and somebody from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I was struck by one thing as Mr. Ahern was talking about the arguments made about enlargement 20 years ago. Some things may have changed but those arguments, believe me, happened. They have been dusted down and have been said to all of us in our various work as we have met candidate states. Mr. Ahern would be amazed at how similar some of the tones are. A number of people have indicated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: 267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the State has access to mother and baby records from a private nursing home (details supplied); if the public can access this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21113/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I start this morning by welcoming Dr. Kenneth McDonagh, who is the head of the school of law and government at Dublin City University, DCU, and Professor Ben Tonra, from the school of politics and international relations at University College Dublin, UCD, to discuss the recent developments in the EU on security and defence. They are both very welcome. I thank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. McDonagh. I now invite Professor Tonra to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank our guests for their opening statements. The first member to indicate was Deputy Ó Murchú.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: Will the Deputy have to leave shortly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: Perhaps Deputy Ó Murchú will-----