Good, so he does want to be involved.

On the last sitting day of the Dáil, I add my own words of thanks on behalf of the Labour Party to you, a Cheann Comhairle, and to all the staff here in the Oireachtas who make the complex run smoothly for all of us. I thank them for their great help and support over this term; it is deeply appreciated.

As we face into our own election, we are all conscious of enormous impact internationally of the US election result just yesterday for Ukraine, for Gaza, for climate action, for women's rights, for migrant rights and indeed for Europe. Yesterday, Irish media reported that internal Government briefings warned of potential impacts of Trump's win on Ireland's economy. When we saw Irish troops in Lebanon targeted by Israel, I was very grateful to the Tánaiste for his constructive engagement with Opposition leaders at that time. I ask for the same transparency and the same engagement to take place even as we face into an election campaign and that the outgoing Government would brief Opposition leaders on the potential impact of president-elect Trump's win for the economy and for Ireland more generally. It would be helpful if we saw that. Many of us do have concerns about what a more protectionist American trade policy will mean for Ireland. It would be helpful if we could have those briefings.

I acknowledge what the Deputy has said about the US presidential election. Given the strength of the economic relationship between the United States and Ireland it is a very important relationship. More than 200,000 jobs are provided by US companies in Ireland directly, with many more indirectly. Irish companies provide approximately 100,000 jobs in America and more indirectly. This Government has weathered many significant economic shocks. We have had to navigate Brexit and the aftermath of Brexit. We have had to deal with the first pandemic in 100 years, and we did. We had to deal with the inflation that came after it with the post-Covid inflationary spike, which was exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the first war on European soil since the Second World War. As a country and a government, we have weathered very severe economic shocks.

There are terrible wars in Sudan, the Middle East and Ukraine. The German Government has collapsed. The world is in turmoil and we need to have a government that can manage and navigate that for the next five years. I will give consideration to what the Deputy said. There are many subjective views there and governments need-----

Thank you, Tánaiste.

I will discuss it with the Deputy. There are no big surprises in what has been identified.