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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: As Professor Hayward is the only person to be excluded in this round, I want to give her the opportunity to come in on some of the points made by Deputy Haughey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I call Senator Chambers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: Who wants to go first? We will have an all inclusive response here, starting with Professor Phinnemore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: The Senator will be the second person to have left during Professor Shirlow's presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I call Professor Hayward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Senator. I will go to Professor Hayward because she must be away in five minutes. No pressure. It is to be a non-highbrow response from our esteemed academic guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Professor Hayward for her contribution there and for attending today’s meeting. We really appreciate and are grateful for her time and value her contribution. The committee may be doing some further work in this area and we hope to reach out to her again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I call now Professor Phinnemore to speak, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Professor Shirlow. I call Dr. Petit now, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank our contributors there and the Senator is more than welcome. We are going to break with precedent here and are going to allow a member to come in for a second time. Do I have the agreement of our esteemed members for that? Will we allow Deputy Ó Murchú-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Deputy for raising that. I know the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement will visit London shortly. We are going in a few weeks' time as well, so we will put that on the agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Deputy. Does Dr. Petit wish to kick off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: Does Dr. Petit or Dr. Cooper wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Professor Phinnemore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: Coming back to Professor Phinnemore's statistic - and I hope I am quoting him correctly - about the 70% reliance on political parties for reliable information, if one couples that or measures that against Professor Shirlow's study, which says civic society is out of sync with the political process, invariably this happens in most societies whereby in civic society the people are ahead of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: Maybe people just need a forum. Straight after Brexit in 2016, in county Louth we had plenty of meetings there, as in Letterkenny, where people came together to discuss it and raise issues. Would anybody else like to comment or are we all talked out at this stage? There is an old Irish saying: "Má theastaíonn uait aithne a chur orainn, mair inár dteannta: if we want to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: Ar son an choiste, cuirim fáilte roimh achan duine do dtí an cruinniú. On behalf of the committee I welcome: Professor Katy Hayward and Professor David Phinnemore, Queens University Belfast; Professor Peter Shirlow, University of Liverpool; and Dr. Christy Ann Petit and Dr. Ian Cooper, Dublin City University. They are all very welcome. We will discuss the state of play...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Professor Phinnemore and call Professor Shirlow to speak now, please.

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: I acknowledge the people who are still hurting and who will hurt for a long time. Families who are directly affected will hurt due to this enormous loss and tragedy. I am very conscious that this is extremely raw. It is very raw for the people who are still grieving. We are in the middle of the months' minds and while this opportunity has been afforded to us parliamentarians to speak on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision that is in place to ensure continuity of transportation services for the Creeslough community as a consequence of the current road closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54333/22]