Before proceeding to questions I am sure Members wish very much to join me in extending a most warm welcome to a delegation of members of the House of Commons' Select Committee on European Affairs led by its chairman, Sir Robert Hicks, MP. On your behalf I express the ardent hope that their visit to Ireland will be most happy and successful and extend to them, in the old Gaelic term, céad míle fáilte, a hundred thousand welcomes.
