Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

1:05 pm

Mr. Kyle O'Sullivan:

That sounds very sensible. What we are doing at the moment on the MFF is trying to protect the heading, the allocation for it, but an issue definitely arises about the actual terms of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund and the way we can access it. It needs to be made accessible. We have accessed it for workers in Ireland. It has been very important here and we would try to maintain that access. In the context of the MFF, we are trying to protect an allocation of funds to it in the first instance but I agree that in terms of the way the Globalisation Adjustment Fund works, we believe it should be clear and easy to access. I would imagine that where that is being treated - it is not being treated as part of the MFF - we would take that view.

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