Six Irish MEPs will sit on the UK-EU parliamentary assembly, according to the new membership list.
The constitutive meeting of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly is due to take place today.
The assembly is made up of 35 MEPs on the EU side, and 35 politicians from a mix of the Houses of Parliament on the UK side.
The EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly was established as part of the Brexit deal to encourage dialogue between the two sides.
Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil), Nina Carberry (Fine Gael), Ming Flanagan (Independent), Kathleen Funchion (Sinn Fein) and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Labour) will represent Ireland on the assembly. Michael McNamara (Independent) will be a part-time substitute member.
Meetings alternate between Brussels and London. The last meeting was due to have taken place in Brussels in March this year, but was postponed due to elections in the UK and subsequently for the European Parliament.
The European Parliament’s delegation says that it continues to “monitor political, economic and social developments in the UK, in particular those which could have an impact on the implementation
of the [Brexit] agreements.”