 Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we'll endeavor to keep to our timings. My name is Ben Tonner from University College Dublin and it gives me enormous pleasure to welcome you all here this morning. Welcome both from Norsha, which is the consortium on research and teaching in foreign affairs, EU foreign affairs and the Institute for International European Affairs. Norsha is an Erasmus Plus funded network which encompasses 10 institutions including UCD and is led by Dr. Heidi Maurer of Oxford University and Dr. Gargana Nuceva of Maastricht University. And for three years we've been looking at EU foreign security and defence policy, particularly in the more scholarly context, but a particular focus of our work is also to promote interaction between practitioners and scholars. And this series of three seminars is focused very much on that intersection of practitioners and scholars engagement in EU foreign security and defence policy. In partnering with the IAEA our ambition for this series of seminars on defence is essentially to promote a better informed national and European conversation on security and defence issues. So our ambition is both from a European perspective but also an Irish perspective to focus on how we can better inform national debates on these key issues. Now I'm going to leave the introductions to our guest speakers, to Barry Robinson, our chair, but just to thank all three of them for joining us today and to thank you very much for joining us today. And I want to give you a little bit of background in terms of the structure of this event and the purpose and function. The structure of this seminar, in fact it's a workshop. We're actually going to be asking you to do a little bit of work this morning as well as listen and engage with our speakers. But the function of our workshop is twofold. One to inform and have a conversation at the start of the morning based on the presentations on the record and we'll have video clips and conversations published on the IAEA website and NORTRA website. But the second half of the morning is slightly different. This is structured on what is usually called a World Café format. So we have three separate table discussions that will run in parallel. And those three table discussions will each attack a separate question. The first is on perceived threats to European security in general. The second is looking at particular threats faced by smaller European states. And the third panel will be looking at threats particular to the Irish case. And what we're going to be asking you to do over 15 minute segments and you'll be rotating between each of those three tables. But in each of those 15 sessions we're going to ask you to speak as honestly and frankly as you're willing to do in order to have that conversation and to gather information and gather perspectives on what you see as the key security defense threats to each of those three individual actors. Europe in general, small states in particular and the very specific case of Ireland. That conversation is entirely on background. However, each of those tables is going to be facilitated by a chair and reporter. At the end of those three conversations, those three rounds of 15 minutes, we'll come back together in plenary format. And I'll ask the reporters and chairs to share with you some of their reflections to then have a more open conversation in plenary format at the end. What we're going to be doing with those conversations is then to try and disseminate the essential ideas, controversies and debates arising from each of those three conversations. So Claude Aquain and I will be drawing up a briefing paper on the basis of that second conversation and the disseminating that alongside the blogs that our guests are very kindly offered and the video presentations that we'll be putting together. And again, all of that will be disseminated widely through the Norsha website and the double IA website. So again, what we really want to do here is have a good conversation in this house, which the IA is renowned for. But more particularly to disseminate the essence of that conversation to a wider and informed audience, again, to better inform national and public debates. So that is the technical aspects and structure for today. I'm delighted now to hand over to our chair, Barry Robinson, who will introduce our guest speakers and take us through the first section of this morning. So thank you very much and very welcome.