Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
9:00 am
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The common travel area is one thing, but the right of Irish people to take up employment in the UK is clearly another thing. That is not a question of the common travel area; it is a question of the right to travel. We need to protect the rights of Irish people who are currently working in the UK and the ability of people who are currently in Ireland to go to the UK to take up work. Does the Taoiseach see that as an issue on which we can reach bilateral agreement, or does he see it as an EU competence?
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