Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament
Seanad Éireann — 2021-11-02
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Lisa Chambers (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel

I extend a welcome to all our MEPs. It is fantastic to have them here this afternoon and we welcome the engagement. My question is probably best directed to Mr. Andrews. He said at the outset that they do much work on the Brexit area. The Seanad has a special committee, which I chair, on Brexit. One issue that we are grappling with, for which we are yet to find a solution we can recommend, is around the democratic deficit in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland now comes under the customs union and Single Market rules but it does not have a seat at the table at the European Parliament. We have been tasked with answering the question of how we give the people of Northern Ireland a voice at that table in the absence of an MEP.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-02