 Good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here as we're here getting ready to embark and celebrate relationship with the Irish American caucus who has generously provided us a flag from Ireland. One of the senators sent that over to Representative Bauer, and we're gonna have it hanging here on City Hall all week, and then it's gonna participate in St. Paddy's Day celebration in five points on Saturday morning in the parade. But with that, you know, this flag has got 175 year history, and I'm gonna kick it to our Representative Heather Bauer, kind of talk a little bit more about the relationship and why the flag is so significant and important for us to embrace here in Columbia. Representative Bauer. Thank you, Mayor. Hi, everybody. I'm Representative Heather Bauer, represent the southeast part of the city of Columbia in House District 75. First of all, I love the city and when I was elected, which I'm humbled to be doing so, I would do my best to make Columbia as prosperous as possible. So I am humbled and excited to work with the city in the state of South Carolina. It's no doubt that are no surprise that Ireland wants to work with South Carolina in the city of Columbia after the week of Scout Motors being announced. We just passed a major workforce development bill in the house as well. This has been a bipartisan effort to bring the Irish American caucus and a trade commission to South Carolina to work on bringing investments and working with Ireland to grow economic development in South Carolina. I have a they have a very keen interest in working with our state. We've been working with Senator Mark Dally and several of us will be going to Ireland in August to have discussions with their legislative legislators and economic developers. So I am part Irish, so I'm very excited about about this and I'll be carrying the flag as the mayor mentioned. But most importantly, I want Jim Lausery, who is the president of the South Carolina State Board, ancient order of Hiberians. This is the oldest and largest representation of Irish folks in the state. So thank you representative Bowers. As she said, it's Jim Lausery and I represent a group of Irishmen around the state and around the country that came here in 1836. But we go back all the way to the late 1500s in Ireland. And I was a member of the staff of the city of Columbia back from 90 through 2010. And I'm very proud to be representing the Irish community here this morning. And we we've done some things. Actually, if you some of you may have even seen it, we have an Irish memorial down at the canal dedicated to those who the Irish were brought here to build the canal back in 1820. So I'm very grateful to be part of this this morning and go Irish. I want to commend the city of Columbia, the mayor, councilman and Heather for making this effort. You know, we in in the legislature sometimes lose sight that it's the folks that engage on a grassroots level with both local government and their neighborhoods that get things done. So I'm excited about this. I'm excited about being here this morning. And while we vote on the scout project in the Senate this week, which I think will pass those mega projects are important, but so are the small ones and so relationships with other countries. Thank you.