Jim D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the statement made by the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, in Dundalk last week that he expects the June meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council to support and be involved in the next round of applications for funding for the Narrow Water Bridge project. This breaks the impasse that existed where support from the Northern Executive was not forthcoming. I have spoken to a number of people in that regard since and they fully expect that the North-South Ministerial Council will indeed do that and that the funding application can be made in 2015 through the Special EU Programmes Body, SEUPB.

I agree with Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú that it would be timely to have a debate on the North in this House but we could talk until the cows come home in that there is that much to talk about, and, by the way, it does not make us Sinn Féin to be talking about the North.