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Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: We are now back in public session. I thank the witnesses for their patience. It looks like we will be continuing through lunch so we have all had to re-juggle our office agendas a bit. I am delighted to welcome representatives from both the British Medical Association Northern Ireland Council and the Irish Medical Organisation. Their contributions today will be very timely and will feed...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Dr. Woods for his sincere and in-depth remarks. I welcome him and his colleague, Mr. Laffin, to this afternoon's session. Our next presentation is from the Irish Medical Organisation. I welcome Dr. Ann Hogan and her colleague, Professor Trevor Duffy.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Thank you, Dr. Hogan and Dr. Woods. I have two questions that you might be able to address. One relates to the last comment you made, Dr. Hogan, in respect of the potential for the North-South Ministerial Council and the context of where we are now in terms of UK-Irish relations and the reliance on the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council and the various other...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: It is absolutely strictly Brexit. I ask Dr. Woods to respond first, and then Dr. Hogan.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: Of course.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with British Medical Association and Irish Medical Organisation (8 Jun 2017)

Neale Richmond: I thank Professor Duffy and all six witnesses for coming here this afternoon and for sharing with us a wealth of knowledge. We appreciate that, as well as their detailed responses to the questions posed by all three of us. We will now suspend the meeting briefly to change around the witnesses.

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

Neale Richmond: We are now back in public session. After a morning discussing health and social issues we are moving back to one of our all-island bodies that was unable to join us at the previous session. We are delighted, however, that they could come in today to talk about an issue that got a lot of headline coverage yesterday from some of our speakers so we look forward to further engagement. I am...

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

Neale Richmond: I thank Mr. Gibbons. I have some questions but I will first go to my colleagues if they would like to come in at this point.

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

Neale Richmond: The great thing about allowing colleagues going first is that that was one of my questions but I have two other ones. We heard in general economic terms in other sessions about the need - for obvious reasons - for capital infrastructure. Many of those feed into the transport sector, which I can only imagine will have a major impact on the tourism sector. These include the development of...

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.