Tá ríméad orm a bheith anseo libh anocht, agus ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil libh as ucht bhur fíorchaoin fáilte.

[I am very delighted to be with you this evening, and I would like to thank you for your kind welcome.]

It is a great pleasure to return to Strasbourg, a city I last visited in 2013 during the Irish Presidency of the European Union. On that occasion I had the opportunity to address the European Parliament. Today I had the equally significant experience of addressing…