do business with Ireland because we are strong and reliable characters. Mr. President, led to even more and better together in the past, Irish neighbors came to have built the New Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful point. They built the roads and the railroads that made this mighty union possible. Today, Irish companies are building the infrastructure connecting the United States in the 21st century. Throughout our great shared history, Ireland has played a role in bringing America in doing so we've been proud to help this make this country great, Mr. President, American companies continue to invest in Ireland, where our access to European marketed workforce and consistent and stable business environment leaves us one of the best places in the world to do business. And just like our peoples and cultures, our economies are deeply implemented. Investment in Ireland lets American companies sell their profits across the world. Our island is home to a people with an outward perspective, generations of whom are built to the United States for opportunity and inspiration. We've been prosperity through free and fair play with partners all over the world and particularly here in the United States. Let us continue to build on that foundation, bringing ever growing prosperity to all of our great people. Let us continue to work together to make sure that we maintain that mutually beneficial two way economic relationship that has allowed innovation and creativity and prosperity to pass mr. President on St Patrick's Day, 1981 in this House, President Ronald Reagan spoke of a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. And that was the start of an extraordinary term. 17 years later, after enormous effort and commitment and dialog and disagreement and sheer perseverance, we signed go try the agreement. We signed a just analyst in peace. And the United States of America will have a very center of that magic. Of hope and inspiration. Successive presidents, Republicans and Democrats cared enough to go into the eight months, the persuading, the condoning, the negotiating, the encouraging, the influencing and Mr. President. 3720 people were killed in that conflict, and close to 50,000 people were needed per capita terms at many divisions of America. Just imagine that for a moment, in terms of the scale of what happened, it was the support of the United States of America that was essential in bringing that to men, one of the greatest achievements of American foreign policy, would have said commitment on both sides of the island. The story of peace in Ireland is one that we go together. We know building peace is a difficult and painstaking task, but one of the mighty United States of America puts it shoulder to do we cannot move. I welcome