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Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Youth Forum, Education and Training Boards Ireland and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I will go back to the witnesses in the same order we started, and ask each witness to comment on whatever questions were addressed to them and to comment overall. I will ask Mr. Garrahy to begin.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Youth Forum, Education and Training Boards Ireland and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I have a question before I ask Ms King to make her final remarks. I fully agree we have lost social Europe. It is not what it was in the 1980s and is not what it should be. It is one of the great challenges. As a politician of a certain persuasion, I do not believe the EU should be solely an economic ideal going forward. The eighth term of reference in the report is on the future of...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Youth Forum, Education and Training Boards Ireland and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and for being here. It is greatly appreciated. I was reminded of a quote at the weekend that the difference between the possible and impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer. We have much work to do in our committee. The witnesses are not the last to come before us and there will be another session in two weeks. They are the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Apologies have been received this morning from Senator Gerard P. Craughwell, who will be substituted for by Senator Billy Lawless. I welcome everybody this morning and ask those present to please turn off their mobile phones or switch them to airplane mode at this stage. Unfortunately, silent mode is not good enough as it interferes with communications. We have a really busy agenda...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Ms Madden and Mr. O'Connell for appearing before the committee and for their presentation. I invite Mr. Wheeler to make his statement.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Mr. Wheeler and his colleague, Ms Troy, for presenting to us. I invite Mr. Doyle to make his opening statement.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I wish the witnesses the best of luck in answering all the questions that have been asked in the remaining ten minutes.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Senator Mark Daly wants to come in and ask a question. He should be brief because we are going over time and I want to get everyone in.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Senator.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I am just going to let Mr. O'Connell come in here as well. He might answer the Senator's question.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I think we have teased that out nicely at this stage. I thank all six witnesses for coming in and giving so much of their time and their thoughts on this matter. This is vitally important and is possibly an area we have not looked at in enough depth in this entire debate, in terms of the public body. This is a standing committee and we will be going for another few weeks. If anything...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Our next session of this morning's work relates to the eighth term of reference of this committee's work, on the future of Europe. I am very happy to welcome Ms Noelle O'Connell, executive director of European Movement Ireland. For everything to be in order, I must declare an interest in that I am a former employee of European Movement Ireland. Ms O'Connell was my boss. She was a very...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Ms O'Connell. I will now invite members who wish to contribute to do so and then I will revert to Ms O'Connell for a response. Senator Paul Daly is first.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Ms O'Connell mentioned that in European Movement Ireland's survey of other members of the European Movement International, only 55% saw Brexit as the main priority. This is alarming but not surprising. Could she dig a bit deeper into those figures to see if there is a geographic imbalance, for example, is it the case that the further east the country, the less it is an issue? She mentioned...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: We will be able to get those figures from the permanent representative and departmental officials. We can provide the comparison for the number of Irish people employed in the Commission also.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Ms O'Connell mentioned that she would be delighted to come back again. Unfortunately, we will not be here for much longer. As today is 1 June, I remind members that we must report in 29 days. In that period, however, if other matters come to Ms O'Connor's desk that she would like to pass on, I ask her please not to be a stranger and send them to the committee. It has been a pleasure to...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Anthony Coughlan (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Thank you for coming back for this afternoon's session. I am delighted to welcome Dr. Anthony Coughlan, a professor emeritus from Trinity College, Dublin, to give us a second line on the future of Europe, which is an element of today's discussion. As you might be aware, Dr. Coughlan, we had Noelle O'Connell from European Movement Ireland before the committee this morning. We look forward to...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Anthony Coughlan (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Dr. Coughlan. I will open up the debate to Senators before asking a few questions of my own. We will take all of the questions in one go before coming back to Dr. Coughlan for answers, rebuttals or comments.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Anthony Coughlan (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I sincerely thank Dr. Coughlan for his contribution today. He has challenged us in a way most of our speakers so far have not. This has been reflected by the very earnest questions put by my colleagues. The contribution he has made to our committee is very valuable. Before I ask him to respond to some of the comments and questions, I have one my own. Does Dr. Coughlan see any positives...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Anthony Coughlan (1 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Is there any positive aspect to Ireland remaining in the EU?