Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Frances Fitzgerald, MEP. That will give rise to a number of themes, very notably the degree to which Covid-19 has set back women's rights in a big way internationally, and that question needs addressing. It has had a huge impact on the education of women in a number of areas of the world, and on a number of other factors.

The first part of the dialogue was our MEPs speaking, and that was certainly very engaging and worth hearing. A huge number of very real themes and important linkages emerged. The next part of the dialogue is the response from the leaders of each of the groups here. The part that was most fascinating and worked best the last day was the question and answer session.

For the first part of the session, we had to be slightly deferential and welcoming to our guests, but I am ruthlessly going to impose time limits from now on. We did not do that in phase one. All our leaders have five minutes. On behalf of the Fianna Fáil group, I call Senator Gerry Horkan.