This Friday, the Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union will lay its report before the Seanad after over 46 hours of public consultation and much more done off-camera by the ten members of the committee, the secretariat and many witnesses. The report is an extremely important one that this House was tasked to commission, and I therefore call on the Leader to set aside time next week for statements on the report with the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee. I believe this will give us a great opportunity regarding future statements on the European Commission's White Paper on the Future of Europe and the ongoing Brexit negotiations.

Could we look at possibly having regular statements and discussions post-European Council meetings, shadowing the work done by the Dáil? It would provide for an excellent level of scrutiny of the work done by this Chamber on EU affairs.