Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I send our best wishes to Anna May McHugh and the people at the ploughing championships. It was upsetting today for all the people participating in, and all the people who are en route to, the ploughing championships. I hope it resumes tomorrow and they get an extra day on Friday. I hope they get a response to that. I know companies that are there and it is extremely disappointing. It was a wonderful day yesterday.All the Presidential candidates were there yesterday canvassing as well. They were lucky they picked yesterday. I wish Ms Anna Marie McHugh well. It is a marvellous event taking place near Tullamore and I wish it well.

Finally, I wish the Taoiseach success in Salzburg, Austria, today. He is swimming with sharks when it comes to Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker and others in respect of the EU. It is vital that we retain our 12.5% corporation tax rate and it should not be a matter for negotiation. Brexit or not, the 26 other members should support it on the basis that we will be the most affected and the most damaged if the Brexit negotiations are not good. The best Brexit outcome is a return to the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1965 when the United Kingdom and Ireland had an agreement prior joining the EEC. It is a separate zone in Europe and should be supported on that basis.

I ask the Leader to find out what I asked of him. On 17 October, I will work with Dublin University staff in the House on an innovative possibility for a seamless Border. I will give him more details about that. I have put forward a plan to them, which they are working on, and they will come back with a proposal as to how we could apply modern technology to overcome the Border issue.