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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will move on from the question, but I am not asking the Taoiseach to accept all the things he has just outlined. I do not know if the question is being lost in translation as it crosses the room but what I am asking the Taoiseach to do is reassure me and the people of Donegal, the north west and the Border region that, in the context of these negotiations, if access to the Single Market and freedom of travel is not secured at the end of the process, the Irish Government has a contingency plan on which it is working. I am not asking the Taoiseach to outline the plan because that would undermine the principal objectives of the Government. However, will the Taoiseach please reassure us that the Government has been, or is about to start, working on a contingency plan.
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