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Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Tourism Ireland (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I am proud to say that I am staycationing this year and doing my bit for the cause. Perhaps it is because I had to pay for a Seanad election last year, but that is neither here nor there.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Tourism Ireland (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank the witnesses sincerely for their contributions and for the detailed answers to our questions. We are now going to suspend the meeting as time has caught up on us.

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 welcome members to the afternoon session of today's marathon meeting, which will focus on social, labour and youth affairs. I am delighted to welcome a range of interesting and expert speakers from various backgrounds: Mr. David Garrahy from the European Youth Forum, Ms Anne McHugh from the Education and Training Boards Ireland and Ms Patricia King, general secretary of the Irish Congress...

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 Mr. Garrahy. We really appreciate that contribution.

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 Ms King. I thank all of the witnesses for their attendance and appreciate their valuable contributions. I shall now open up the floor to questions from my colleagues. Senator Noone will commence.

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 welcome all of our guests seated in the Gallery, particularly the former Senator, Mr. James Heffernan. I call Senator Paul Daly.

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...