Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All politics is local; therefore, I welcome my near neighbour from across the road at home and thank him for addressing us. I congratulate him on being the model MEP. We have been watching his progress and appreciate how well he is doing on committees in the European Union and his work, on the issue of data protection in particular. I merely want to wish him well and ask him when he comes here again to say a few words on a matter in which we are all interested and about which there is much guesswork, namely, the new Irish constituencies and the loss of seats, which we all regret, to also speak about EU expansion. Serbia's application has been approved and Turkey and other countries want to join. I wish him very well in the future.