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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: We will resume in public session. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Noelle O'Connell, CEO of European Movement Ireland. She is joined by her colleagues, Ms Dee McMahon, chief operations officer, and Dr. Matthew G. O'Neill, EU information and research officer. We will be discussing the findings of European Movement Ireland's 2023 opinion poll. All witnesses are reminded of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Thank you, Ms O'Connell, for your opening remarks. In passing, and before I open the floor, the bed bug story in France yesterday was interesting. One of the stories planted was that Ukrainians arriving into Europe were responsible. That was printed by reputable newspapers and now, due to investigation, has been shown quite clearly to have been one of these completely made-up stories that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: May I add to that? It is interesting that Deputy Ó Murchú picked up on that as the very first thing. In EM Ireland's comment on the methodology it refers to an online survey and then panels. It refers to 1,200 participants. Could Ms O'Connell provide a breakdown, in answer to Deputy Ó Murchú's question, as to how that methodology works? It is important as to how it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: We will let you do that another day, Deputy Ó Murchú. I call Deputy Troy. I am conscious of our time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: That is tempting to Deputy Ó Murchú. I call Deputy Troy. Then I will call Senator Martin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: I will begin by thanking the witnesses for this interesting body of work. I ask them to supply the methodology section to the committee. I know they have said it is available, but it is at the heart of a lot of what we asked about today. A lot of the information has already been commented on, and it is interesting. I will draw out one point, which is whether they think Northern Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their contribution today, and for attending the committee. I thank them again for presenting their excellent European Movement Ireland EU Poll 2023. We look forward to seeing next year's too, when it comes around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Emma Murtagh, senior EU programmes manager for The Wheel, and Mr. Ivan Cooper, CEO of The Wheel. The Wheel is the national association of charities, community groups and social enterprises. It provides leadership to the charity and community sector and advocates on behalf of its members. It also offers advice, training and other opportunities to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Thank you very much. I now invite Mr. Connolly to make his opening statement on behalf of the regional assemblies and then we will take questions from members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Connolly is close to having used up his time for an opening statement. If he has anything he can edit out on the examples side, I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: If Mr. Connolly would like to finish, he may do so, but we already have his statement in front of us. We have the examples.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Connolly, including for truncating the end of the presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: I know the Deputy has to leave in a few minutes but I am going to open up the debate. Multiple people can give a couple of answers if they feel they want to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Does anybody else want to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank Ms Power. Does anybody else want to come in? No. In that case I will move on to Deputy Howlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Before I let our guests back in I wish to comment on something Deputy Howlin just said. For sports capital, my local authority area put a programme in place where officers of the council met all the organisations and the failure of application rate went down. About 20% were failing and that went down to about 1%. That was just by something that is effectively what Deputy Howlin is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: Does anyone want to come in on the split between regional assemblies and local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: The cost of an application has been referenced two or three times now. What is the rough cost of an application, if there is such a thing as a rough cost? In his reply to Deputy Howlin, Mr. Murphy mentioned that, if an application was not successful, the cost was prohibitively high. Could the witnesses give us an indication of what they are talking about when they mention those costs? Ms...