Brexit has occupied our focus here for nearly three years. As the Taoiseach will recall, when the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union, a bid was made to have two UK-based agencies, the European Medicines Agency, EMA, and the European Banking Authority, EBA, relocated to Ireland, but we lost out narrowly to Paris in a tied vote on the relocation of the EBA. It is not too often that the European Union creates new agencies, but in February it was agreed by the Commission, the Council and the Parliament that a new agency would be established, namely, the European Labour Authority. As I understand it, so far only Cyprus and Slovakia have declared an interest in the new agency. Will the Taoiseach support the call made by Sheila Nunan, the Labour Party candidate in Ireland South, to have the agency located in Ireland? It is one of which we have experience and Ireland would make a fine home for it. Is it the Taoiseach's intention to make a bid to have the European Labour Authority based here?

We are giving the matter some consideration, but we will only bid if we think we have a realistic prospect of attaining it. As the Deputy said, we did bid to have the EBA relocated here but, unfortunately, we lost out-----

In a tied vote.

-----in a tied vote. We already have Eurofound based in Ireland. It is an agency that deals with the matter of a work-life balance and labour rights, but we are also conscious that Cyprus, Slovakia and Latvia have already put in a bid. We also have to bear in mind the politics of the matter.